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Growing Guide
Growing Peas
Peas are practically perfect as Mary Poppins might say. The peas in their pod pop in your mouth and are sweet and delicious.
Growing Guide
Growing Parsnips
The easy to grow relation of the carrot - they're sweet, contain more starch and have an earthier, nutty taste.
Guide to Chemicals
Winter Clean-up Spraying
Don’t ignore your garden in winter - spores of diseases and the over-wintering eggs of insect pests are lurking!
Latest Questions & Answers
Where do Slugs and Snails live? And how do I rid them from my garden?
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Common nocturnal pests of the home garden with a voracious appetite for young seedlings and a number of ornamental plants such as Hosta, and the native Reinga Lily. They thrive in damp conditions (winter-spring) or where there is cover from daytime sun. Solution: …
Read MoreWhat are the pros and cons of a raised bed?
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PROS: Raised beds are ideal if you have a sloping site or the soil is heavy clay or very sandy. They look smart and allow for easy crop rotation. They keep the soil a few degrees warmer, enabling an earlier start in spring and later cropping in autumn. If you are new to gardening,…
Read MoreHow deep do I plant the seeds?
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Most seed packets tell you how deep to plant. A rule of thumb is to sow seeds two or three times as deep as they are wide. Take care not to plant seeds to deep. A seed contains a limited supply of stored food to nourish it during germination. If you plant…
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