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Monday, May 20, 2024

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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: Growing woes

For most of the country it was a dismal spring and now we are into the first month of summer things have not improved...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Encouraging children to garden

We need to encourage our children and grandchildren to appreciate Nature by including them in some gardening activities. I believe that young children have a...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Cardboard

Cardboard boxes are everywhere. A lot of products are transported in cardboard boxes, most products we ship out are in cardboard boxes. Supermarkets have heaps of...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Gardening tips

For most of the country it has been a poor spring and slow start of the growing season. We have the daylight hours, in fact...

Gardening with Wally Richards: The need for phosphorus

When we buy plant foods or fertilisers for our gardens we see on them the letters N:P:K followed by numbers which indicate the amounts...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Things we might miss or forget

It is an very interesting spring and start to the new season. Most of us are saying where is spring? It is already into October...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Plant immunity

Plants, just like ourselves, have built in protection against diseases though their immunity systems. We build up our immunity naturally over the years by surviving...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Solving pest problems

It is a new gardening season and once it warms up the pest populations will quickly grow. So far the temperatures have been below what...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Alternative weed controls

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

Gardening with Wally Richards: Tomato time

If you are like me, your fingers are itching to get the new seasons tomato plants under way. The earlier you start the sooner you...

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