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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: Insect pests

Having a neat summer for a change has brought a problem for many gardeners and that is the number of insect pests such as...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Solving Problems – grass and container plants

There are two problems that I was asked about this week and they maybe ones that also affect your gardening endeavors. The first is brown...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Avoiding mistakes

Every week I receive phone calls from gardeners that are having problems with their tomatoes, beans and roses. Within no time at all they are...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Protecting your sprays

If you are like myself I only spray my plants and gardens as I need to for any problems that occur (insect pests and...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Happy New Year (at least hopefully happier than 2021)

The first subject is an important one and one I published 2016 (remember 2016?). It was a far better country then and if you had...

Gardening with Wally Richards: December in the garden

December, the first month of Summer and at this time our thoughts are more on Christmas rather than the garden. If we neglect the garden...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Annual bug pests

This is the time of the year some of a gardener's bug enemies get out and cause damage. I have had my first phone call...

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