21 June 2025 | Australian Natives, Biodiversity, Climate change
Juvenile Foliage What’s the point of different juvenile foliage? Walk through any patch of bushland Melbourne and you might notice that some young plants look surprisingly different from their mature counterparts. This is especially noticeable in eucalypts and...
21 June 2025 | Garlic, July
Garlic Hint – July Now that the shortest day has passed, garlic planted in the autumn will have developed a strong root system and healthy green shoots. But what next? How do we support the swelling of the bulbs into good-sized, healthy heads? Action taken from...
21 June 2025 | Gardening tips, July, Planting guides
Captivating Kale Did you know that there are over 150 known cultivars of kale, with an array of colours, tastes and textures? Kale is easy to grow as long as it is protected from insect attack. An ideal winter plant Kale thrives in the cold, doing well in frosts and...
13 May 2025 | Gardening tips, Garlic, June, Monthly Guides, Root Vegetables
June garlic hint There is not much to do for garlic in June – it is now too late to plant it. Presuming you have weeded, mulched and watered your patch, you have done all you need to. Now it is time to wait until the shortest day after which garlic heads will...
13 May 2025 | June, QLD Fruit Fly
Queensland fruit fly alert – June This is the time to put out Wild May to mop up any males young enough to survive over winter. Females will be dying as winter approaches. Mopping up young males will largely protect your early summer fruit from QFF attack as...
27 April 2025 | May, QLD Fruit Fly
Queensland Fruit Fly alert – May As the photo above shows there are still plenty of Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF) around. In this dry lure from a pomegranate tree in my back garden, there are at least 40 males and in a second lure in a lime tree in my front garden,...
