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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: Some gardening tips

This week I thought it would be a good idea to pass on a number of gardening tips which are useful at this time...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Alternative weed controls

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

Gardening with Wally Richards: Secrets to growing tomatoes

Tomatoes are the second most popular plant for gardeners to grow after Roses. The key to very successful tomato growing is to give them full...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Famine

Throughout history there has been two events that has cause great suffering and that is Famine and Plague, likely in some cases a famine...

Gardening with Wally Richards: How to feed your gardens

You can go out and purchase expensive man-made fertilisers which I do admit they feed your plants but at a nasty cost as they...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Savings

Currently there are people struggling to make ends meet and that makes life unpleasant and stressful. In situations like this I remember the old saying,...

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...

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