25 November 2025 | December, Gardening tips, Monthly Guides
Urgent jobs in the garden for December Cover tomatoes, chillies, capsicum and eggplant with exclusion netting and weigh down the hem with soil, mulch or heavy objects so Queensland Fruit Fly cannot enter beneath the netting. Net your fruit trees with exclusion...
26 October 2025 | Gardening tips, Nightshades
Growing exceptional eggplant and capsicum Top hints for growing eggplants and capsicum Use Dipel (an organic bacterium available from nurseries) to prevent caterpillar poo trails in eggplant and insert fruit into net bags, tying tightly around the calyx, to prevent...
26 October 2025 | Biodiversity, Gardening tips
Compost activators, accelerators, starters, boosters, inoculators – do you need them? First let’s define what terms like activators and accelerators mean. This is not easy because most people, including commercial manufacturers of such products, use these...
23 September 2025 | Gardening tips, Monthly Guides, October, Tomatoes
Growing exceptional tomatoes – SM Plant to Harvest Top hints for growing tomatoes Plant tomatoes deeply – at least half way up their stems. (You can leave the lower leaves on or twist them off.) Deep planting anchors the plant; the buried stem will put out...
23 September 2025 | Australian Natives, Biodiversity
South African weed orchid threatening local wildflowers Spring in Macleod and surrounding suburbs is a time when our bushland and reserves come alive with native wildflowers. Unfortunately, a growing threat is emerging that could outcompete these much-loved plants:...
24 August 2025 | Gardening tips, Planting guides
Growing exceptional corn Let’s start with terminology. Are maize and corn the same? In the paddock, the crop is called maize but when it is harvested it is called corn. Maize comes in soft and hard varieties and this results in some corn being harvested at the...
