Well guys, it’s mozzie time! These annoying, blood-sucking mosquitoes are everywhere. So what can you do? • Don’t leave water in saucers under pots and check your guttering for pools of water after rain. • Put goldfish in all backyard ponds as they eat mozzie...
January and February are tough times for many pets: the heat of mid summer can be very cruel for pets out in the open or under corrugated iron. So, inspect pets’ water dishes twice a day during January and February. Make sure that pets have a shady area nearby so that...
Most of us have “time off” over the Christmas – January period. If you are going away, your plants may need some help. In the garden, a battery powered tap timer can water plants while you are away. Or you can pay a neighbour’s child to do the job for you. Indoor...
Are you time poor? Yeah but the relos and friends will be still be coming even though Christmas has gone & it’s now January. So what are the quick and easy bits to do that are easy but still look good? OK, here’s the Cheat’s Guide to the Emergency Makeover 1. Zip...
Most of us have “time off” over the Christmas – January period. If you are going away, your plants may need some help. In the garden, a battery powered tap timer can water plants while you are away. Or you can pay a neighbour’s child to do the job for you. Indoor...
Summer is an awesome time of the year with the beach, the cricket and holidays. But many plants suffer badly from lack of water and too much overpowering sunlight… Yes, plants do get sunburnt and this causes leaf and bark dieback. So, a few tips: 1. Get a soil wetting...
Some plants adore growing in pots and live in those pots happily for many many years. So let’s look at some. The following plants do far better in pots than in the ground: Azaleas, grass trees (blackboys), daphnes, waratahs, baueras, orchids and bromeliads. The next...
As the hot weather builds even hotter, it’s a good idea to check out your pot plants. Our sun in Australia is almost double the strength of sunlight in Europe or the USA. So many plants actually get sunburn in Australia – especially Japanese maples and other deciduous...
The other day I noticed some stunning fuchsias in a chain store. Perhaps they are coming back into fashion. They should because their flowers are spectacularly beautiful in both shape and colours. Fuchsia flowers hang down like bells, but the top bit of the flower...
The various forms of lime plus gypsum are critically important to healthy productive gardens, yet most of the info put out about limes is utter nonsense. Lime is almost totally misunderstood. Most lime never works anyway since it’s made up of small lumps of rock that...