4 June 2023 | Fruit trees
Dealing with suckers! For the health of fruit trees, it is important to remove suckers at pruning time. Suckers are the shoots that grow from the rootstock beneath the graft on fruit trees. Most fruit trees are grafted, sometimes having several grafts on the one tree....
4 June 2023 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips
Pruning and care of fruit trees Pruning and care of fruit trees First published in July 2022 Top tips follow the timetable below for individual fruit trees prune on a warm, dry day, especially for apricots and cherries avoid using wound healing sprays remove suckers...
25 April 2023 | Gardening tips
Compost activators, accelerators, starters, boosters, inoculators – do you need to pay for them? First, let’s define what terms like activators and accelerators mean. This is not easy because most people, including commercial manufacturers of such...
25 April 2023 | Brassicas, Gardening tips
Silverbeet, spinach, Swiss chard, rainbow chard… what is the difference? Top planting tips: prepare soil to a fine tilth soak silverbeet/chard seed but not spinach seed add compost or well-rotted manure keep well watered Silverbeet, spinach, Swiss chard and rainbow...
2 April 2023 | QLD Fruit Fly
QFF success at the community garden! Sustainable Macleod has succeeded in having a summer season with NO infection of fruit and vegetables at the community garden! We are proud of this achievement and inspired to spread the word about how we did this throughout the...
2 April 2023 | Gardening tips
Comfrey Comfrey In the 1970s, comfrey (Symphytum Officinale) was the ‘in’ herb. Countless articles, papers and books were written on the subject, trials held and societies formed to promote it. Sadly, it is rather obscure these days partly because in spite...
