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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: A new plant disease control

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Plant diseases appear when a plant is lacking in one or more elements or the plant is in stress for whatever reason. Normally we spray...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Growing healthy roses

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There are a number of things that are vital to a healthy plant besides sunlight, food, water and a healthy 'Soil Food Web'. That is...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Starting off the new season

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The daylight hours are slowly extending and soon dormant plants are going to wake up and spring will be just around the corner. Already I...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Then and Now

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Having lived for nearly four score years one can recall what things were like 50 odd years ago and relate that to a comparison...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Strawberries and Garlic

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New seasons strawberry plants are now available in garden centres. The nurseries that grow the plants lift them after the autumn rains have moisten the...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Fresh greens in winter

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Like to grow some fresh, highly nutritious greens this time of the year when sunlight hours are short and stuff is slow to grow? This...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Prepare for the new season

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The year is slipping away and now there are only a few weeks till the shortest day which heralds in a new season for...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Visiting life underground

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There is a saying which reads as... As Above So Below, and with plants and trees what is above the soil level is replicated...

Gardening with Wally Richards: The importance of Phosphate

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Phosphorus stimulates budding and blooming. Plants need phosphorus to produce fruits, flowers, and seeds. It also helps make your plants more resistant to disease. Phosphorus helps...

Gardening with Wally Richards: The importance of potassium and magnesium – Fruit + Flower Power

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Potassium is often referred to as Potash because the ash from wood burn contains a good amount of potassium, and magnesium sulphate is often...
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