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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.

Gardening with Wally Richards: Spud growing time

Growing your own potatoes may take a bit of garden room, for those with smaller sections, but the advantages of having your own freshly...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Fruit tree planting time

Now is the time of the year that sees the arrival of this season's deciduous fruit trees, into garden centres. There is a very good...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Replacing lost minerals and elements

There are 114 natural minerals and elements known to our scientists and these are found in perfect balance in the non polluted blue waters...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Soil diseases

Soils contain diverse communities of microscopic organisms some of which (pathogens) are capable of damaging plants. Pathogens may grow in the soil feeding on the...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Around the corner

We have started into a new growing season now that the shortest day is behind us, sunlight time increasing slowly minute by minute till...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Early season start

Each year in the winter I have been chaffing at the bit to get an early start to the new season because the earlier...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Plants in winter

Before we get onto this weeks subject; a question that was asked this week from a gardener who has wood ash from a fire...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Start of a new season – Your food and your health go hand in hand

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Hippocrates, father of medicine, 431 B.C. Now there is nothing simpler than that statement and...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Getting started

If you're a gardener like me we are chaffing at the bit to get started for the new season. Now with only 4 weeks to...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Strawberry time

May is the traditional month when new seasons strawberry plants become available in garden centres. The nurseries that grow the plants lift them after the...

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