2 April 2023 | Gardening tips
10 tips for winter vegetable planting in Melbourne Brassicas – cauliflower, cabbage, cabbage, kale 1. Before planting out, dip seedlings in Dipel, an organic bacterium that takes care of green caterpillars, the eggs of which may already be on the underside of...
28 February 2023 | Garlic
The shelf-life of garlic: choose cultivars to last year round Garlic isn’t just garlic! Garlic encompasses a wide range of flavours from spicy to buttery, nutty to sweet, mild to hot and more. There are 11 groups, several of which are not grown in Australia, and...
28 February 2023 | Gardening tips
Turn autumn leaves into gold! Recently I saw an unusual site – a Banyule City Council worker was blowing leaves from the gutter onto the nature strip. Usually, it is the other way round, I see people blowing leaves from the nature strip or their driveway into...
30 January 2023 | Tomatoes
What is eating my tomatoes? If your tomatoes have large bites out of them or are half eaten, it will be rats or possums. If they have round holes that contain a calloused concave depression with solid edges, it will be the green caterpillar as seen in the photo below....
28 January 2023 | Gardening tips, QLD Fruit Fly
Net for success! We are repeating this article written in November 2021 because, now more than ever before, it is urgent to net to protect fruit and vegetables from Queensland Fruit Fly. Without the right kind of net, properly secured at ground level, you can expect...
10 December 2022 | Gardening tips
Why Wild May Works – Queensland Fruit Fly Prevention Preventing Queensland Fruit Fly destroying your fruit and vegies Wild May works because ‘teenage’ male Queensland Fruit Flies (QFF) cannot produce the pheromone needed to attract females without...
