12 June 2021 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips, QLD Fruit Fly |
Queensland Fruit Fly Strategy #1 – Start right now! Sustainable Macleod is developing a simple and effective Queensland Fruit Fly Strategy for Banyule. We will be rolling it out in a series of blogs and seminars and collecting data to help keep track of results....
12 May 2021 | Gardening tips, Planting guides |
Quick composting of autumn leaves Nature is currently providing us with an abundance of raw nutrients for next season’s garden in the form of leaves and grass clippings, both excellent ingredients for composting. Deep rooted trees pull trace minerals from deep in the...
12 May 2021 | Gardening tips, Recipes
Hints for pressing and curing olives Suzy Sharpe, who designed and manages the Sustainable Macleod website, phoned me the other day with a question about olives that I could not answer. I then phoned David Strutt who has a wonderful olive grove at Arthurs Creek, and...
11 April 2021 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips |
How to reduce the height of fruit trees At the community garden, we want to bring down the height of our fruit trees so that none of us need climb a ladder to pick the fruit. Gone are the days of leaving some for the birds, as we now need to remove any fruit that...
11 April 2021 | Gardening tips, Legumes, Planting guides
Broad bean bonanza! Top hints for growing broad beans add potash to soil plant beans 5cm deep support plants to prevent stem breakage remove tips to prevent black fly Broad beans are a wonderful crop to grow for 4 reasons. They are a delicious and nutritious food,...
11 April 2021 | Brassicas, Gardening tips, Planting guides
How to grow beautiful cauliflower Top tips for growing cauliflower: plant seedlings deeply space according to instructions install dripline keep well watered Cauliflower is sometimes avoided by gardeners because of poor results but it is very easy to grow large,...
