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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: 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...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Winter clean up time

In the house we do spring cleaning but in the garden we are best to do a winter clean up. There are many aspects of...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Bryophytes

Bryophytes is a name that you are not likely familiar with but if I was to say moss or liverwort you would know about...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Garlic

Many years ago you could put a few cloves into friable, free draining, fertile soil with their points upwards and their bums down, some...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Confirmation

I have in my articles and books for some years stated that our commercially grown food chain is poor in nutrition but high in...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Minerals from the ocean

A reader recently asked me to write an article about the advantages of using pure salt from the ocean in the garden for its...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Winter is coming … get ready your gardens

Firstly those reading this during Easter; I wish you all a happy Easter and travel safely. If not traveling then enjoy your garden and get...

Gardening with Wally Richards: The Invisible Rainbow

Firstly I give you fair warning this weeks article is not directly about gardening but it is very important to all living species on...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Camouflage

The dictionary definition of camouflage is a condition in which the appearance of someone or something when placed against a background makes the person...

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