Burke’s Backyard list of the top 10 best pot plants for shade. Don has listed plants to suit a variety of climates. To find out which ones grow best in your area, check with your local nursery. Note: not all shade-tolerant plants do well in a pot, but these ones do!
Don looked at some ‘must do jobs’ for spring. Repot now Over the next few weeks plants will make about 90-95% of their growth for the year, so repot any plants that need it now. Repot any plants that have been in the same pot for two years or more. This is necessary...
A drought is a tough time for all plants in your garden, especially the poor brown lawn. Here are Don’s tips on what to do, and what not to do, during the drought. Use glazed or plastic pots If you haven’t got much water, grow your plants in glazed or plastic pots....
You can make your own non-toxic controls for some common insect pests as well as free liquid fertiliser for the whole garden. They work out much cheaper than the commercially available alternatives. Soap spray • 3 teaspoons liquid soap or detergent • 2 cups water...
Online cheapies/auction/classified sites eBay: www.ebay.com.au Grays online: www.graysonline.com Freecycle: www.freecycle.org/group/AU Trading Post: www.tradingpost.com.au Quicksales: www.quicksales.com.au Gum tree: www.gumtree.com.au Recycled links and info...
Flood recovery tips The March 2011 issue of Burke’s Backyard magazine, on sale nationally from Monday, February 21, has a major flood recovery feature, but to get the much-need info out to everyone as quickly as possible, we have also set up an Adobe acrobat...
Seed Companies: We are often asked where old-fashioned or rare varieties of seeds can be found. The following companies should be able to help: seedsavers.net greenharvest.com.au roystonpetrieseeds.com.au edenseeds.com.au
The hose nozzle mentioned by Don recently on A Current Affair is a Ladco Blaster Nozzle. RRP is $6.94 It is available at some Bunnings stores and some Mitre 10 Stores. If there are none available Bunnings should be able to do a special order for people since...
Australia’s foremost authority on everything that’s happening in Aussie backyards, Don Burke has been growing vegies and keeping chooks ever since he was a kid. He went on to graduate as a horticulturist and tree surgeon and is a life-long gardener. ‘Organic’ is...
While there’s always some doubt cast on home remedies, alternative medicines etc this doesn’t mean they aren’t worth trying if they seem harmless enough… The current (November) issue of the Burke’s Backyard Magazine has a number of suggested home remedies...