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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: The need for phosphorus

When we buy plant foods or fertilisers for our gardens we see on them the letters N:P:K followed by numbers which indicate the amounts...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Things we might miss or forget

It is an very interesting spring and start to the new season. Most of us are saying where is spring? It is already into October...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Plant immunity

Plants, just like ourselves, have built in protection against diseases though their immunity systems. We build up our immunity naturally over the years by surviving...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Solving pest problems

It is a new gardening season and once it warms up the pest populations will quickly grow. So far the temperatures have been below what...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Alternative weed controls

Chemical herbicides aren't the only option available. There are a number of other products which are handy weedkillers but which don't do as much damage...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Tomato time

If you are like me, your fingers are itching to get the new seasons tomato plants under way. The earlier you start the sooner you...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Planting plants

Gardeners are buying and planting plants now for the coming season. This may range from seedlings of vegetables, annual flowering plants, fruiting plants and ornamental...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Stone fruit Curly Leaf Disease

All too often I am asked questions about problems that have already occurred and its to late to prevent them. Its like the old saying,...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Potatoes

Once upon a time when the world was a much better place and people could afford to buy a quarter acre of land and...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Disease control

One of the products that we have that is excellent for preventing and the control of a number of plant diseases is Perkfection. We named...

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