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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: What is eating my plants?

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Up and down the realm peoples plants are being mysteriously eaten. All sorts of plants in the garden, some untouched where others are decimated and...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Christmas gardening shopping

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With Xmas only about 4 weeks away, many of you will be sorting out what Xmas presents to buy for whom. Gardening related gifts are...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Fantastic Neem cake and oil

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Products and things that make gardening easier and achieve better results are always sort after by keen gardeners. Years ago; I was the first garden...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Basics

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I have noticed from phone calls and people listening to Rodney Hide and myself doing our monthly gardening programme on Reality Check Radio (RCR)...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Gardening diligence

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Being successful in gardening is the ability to observe and when necessary take the appropriate action. A good memory or a gardening Diary are also...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Taking the headache out of growing plants

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Some years ago I wrote about the advantages of using aspirin sprays and drenches on plants we grow. The article was well received at the...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Free fruit trees and fruiting plants

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Every one would like either fruit trees and shrubs or fruiting plants, for free in their gardens and the number fruiting plants is dependent...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Plants and the human relationship

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Lets firstly look at a few studies that shows that there is more to plant/human interrelationships than 'meets the eye'. For instance the studies done...

Gardening with Wally Richards: An old problem and a new vegetable

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Problem first: Black sooty mold is a fungus that grows on Honeydew which we see on the foliage of plants that have an infestation...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Building up soil populations

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Recently I wrote about having gardens like our grandparents had... If they were like most people back in their days, they were keen gardeners not...

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