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Wally Richards

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Wally Richards has been a gardening columnist for over 30 years. Check his websites - for gardening news and tips visit www.gardenews.co.nz. For mail order products visit www.0800466464.co.nz. Wally also has a gardening problem help line on 0800 466 464.
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Gardening with Wally Richards: Pollinating fruiting flowers

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Pollination can be a problem for gardeners when it does not occur naturally. Various plants use different ways of being pollinated from attracting insects such...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Gardening bits

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Your gardens should be doing very well by now, but cucumbers and a few heat loving plants may still be a bit slow growing...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Simple things

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Sometimes it is the simple things that can make a big difference to your plants and gardens. In recent times we have explained the virtues...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Going bananas

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(Not that fund raising thing for kids but actually growing bananas at home.) I remember years ago when one of the house plant nurseries put...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Herbicide damage

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I am very concerned about the number of gardeners that have asked me why their tomatoes/beans/potatoes are growing funny this season. When we say 'funny'...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Increasing tomato flavour

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Recently I have been asked how to obtain the best flavour from tomatoes. A good question, and there are many types of tomatoes each with...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Plant diseases

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Plants like ourselves catch a disease or fungus problem when they are in stress; like we are more susceptible to a cold or other...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Beetles and spraying

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This week I have had two readers asking about damage that's happening to a hibiscus and a citrus tree. In both cases the leaves were...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Getting more from your home grown fruit

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We can spend a lot of time growing fruit; feeding, spraying, looking after and harvesting but are we getting the best results from our...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Reproduction

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Plants have one objective in life and that is to reproduce. Reproduction is mostly done by seeding (spore in ferns) but can be also achieved...
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