25 November 2025 | December, Gardening tips, Monthly Guides
What to plant in December in Melbourne Plant in punnets It is too late to raise most summer vegies in punnets because, by the time they are big enough to fruit, the season will be almost over. The following quick growing vegies and herbs are the exception: lettuce,...
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...
24 October 2025 | Garlic, November
November Garlic Hint November is the time to assess if your garlic is ready to harvest. This can be done in 2 ways. Either dig down around a bulb or two and decide whether they are large enough or harvest when 4 -6 of the lower leaves have withered. This is easier...
24 October 2025 | Gardening tips, November
Urgent jobs in the garden for November Put out fruit fly lures and protein traps. Queensland fruit fly is already here in Macleod this season. Net your fruit trees with fine net, tying tightly at the base to prevent Queensland fruit fly entry and to protect from...
