On Saturday mornings I normally write my gardening article for emailing out on Sunday, after proof reading it.
Being doing this for so long now and every week one has to think what is happening in gardens now, what can I write about that will be of interest to most readers?
Sometimes when stuck for a subject I look back over the last 20 plus years of articles and see what could be of interest that I have written in the past and use that as the bases of a new article.
Sometimes a reader will have recently contacted me by phone and we have had a chat which has then been used to write that week’s article.
This morning (Saturday) a reader had placed an order for some products and I phoned; as I always do with every order to talk about the products and sort out freight and payment.
People ask me why don’t I have on the mail order web site like most web sites, or have pay on line facility?
If I did that I would lose contact with my customers and any help or advice which I am able to give would not be available.
Also I would not learn how the gardens are going in ‘their neck of the woods, what problems they are having and what advice I can give.
It is called service and like common sense it is another thing that has disappeared in our times.
The phone conversation today was with a lady by the name of Katherine whose family have a 10 acre life style block out from Rangiora in Canterbury.
The information Katherine gave me is of grave concern to all of us as it directly affects everyone.
It was all about food production in her area and what has happened this season on their land and other food producers in the area.
Katherine said that the winter into spring was very good with ample rain before it started to dry out in more recent times.
So crops, fruit and grass should have been fairly good as they had a good start before it started to go into more drought like conditions.
Besides Canterburians are accustomed to dry summers and still produce ample crops.
I was told; the hay taken off two paddocks was well down on the previous year in fact less than half the bales when compared to previous.
Also the quality or the carbohydrate content was low which means that its not a lot of energy for the stock when they consume it.
I know that last year around Marton area farmers were complaining about the poor quality of their grass which is a result of lack of direct sunlight.
I have not heard locally if the same has applied this season.
Katherine also said a noticeable reduction in insect populations, few Ladybirds, honey bees and white butterflies but reasonable amount of bumble bees.
A few other people I have spoken to from other areas of New Zealand have also commented in not so many insects around both beneficials and pest ones.
(White fly appears to be an exception for many)
Katherine told me that fruit including berries producers in the area are well down on what they normally produce in fact several do not have sufficient produce to have their normal gate sales and only enough to fill some orders.
When out bike riding recently Katherine said she had to stop to catch her breath as the air had a sulphur like smell to it and it made her feel out of sorts.
She noted that it was only while cycling she noticed it not otherwise and put it down to the bike exercise which meant breathing more air in.
She also told me of lack of blue skies with ample direct sun shine, instead hazy shies or overcast with noticeable trials in the sky which people call Chem Trails as they contain a range of chemicals which are released from planes.
The following from Internet: These trails, unlike condensation trails, do not dissipate quickly into the atmosphere.
In addition, there is proof which confirms the presence of there being harmful chemical elements in the trails.
Some researchers have studied the composition and effects of this phenomenon, which may to us seem harmless and commonplace.
According to these experts, chemical trails are the result of experimental operations which have manifold purposes.
The main objectives, albeit unproven, range from the meteorological (Weather Control) Dimming Skies (Global Warming) to the military.
The analyses carried out have verified the presence of the following elements in the chem trails: barium, aluminum, radioactive thorium and cesium, copper, titanium, silicon, lithium, cobalt, lead, ethylene dibromide and several pathogenic agents.
I saw a few months back a Hills Lab report on rain water caught in the North Island that confirmed that those chemicals were in the water.
What effect on the health of all life forms including ourselves and plants is yet to be known.
(And we worry about the dangerous chemicals chlorine and fluoride deliberately added to our water supplies).
Considered a taboo subject in the 1970s, solar geo-engineering has emerged into mainstream conversations of climate change adaptation within the past decade.
As of 2023, there are over ten major research groups pursuing stratospheric aerosol injection.
Dimming skies: Sulfur dioxide forms highly reflective sulfates, which are considered the main cause of global dimming.
Global dimming had been widely attributed to the increased presence of aerosol particles in Earth’s atmosphere, predominantly those of sulfates.
(remember… Katherine’s air with sulphur like smell/taste)
Henry Kissinger warned us when he said: ‘Control the Food, control the People. Control the Energy, control the Continents. Control the Money, control the World.’
Also as I said in my recent book, Gardening with Wally Richards, that CO2 levels are getting dangerously low which is affecting plant growth as plants need good levels of CO2 to grow and thrive.
Then there is a lot of radiation that planet earth is been subjected to and affecting all life forms which is another aspect which has not acknowledged the dangers thereof. See here.
This could help to explain the reduction in insect populations and other phenomena such as recently…
RAINBOW LORIKEETS DROPPING FROM THE SKY and many other such reports from around the world: Last Wednesday, ABC News in Australia reported about hundreds of rainbow-colored parrots falling dead out of the sky along a swath of the east coast of that country centred on Brisbane, the capital of Queensland. In 2010, around the time the first 4G cell towers were being built, ornithologists described the first cases of a mysterious disease that paralyzed and killed these stunning creatures.
During the summer of 2019-2020, when the first 5G towers went into service, 1,500 rainbow lorikeets rained out of the skies.
And last week, when more than 200 dead lorikeets were collected in just a few days, it made headlines again.
Knowing about things maybe frightening for some but at the same time it allows for you to prepare for events that may or may not happen.
One aspect that we must be concerned with is food security and keeping our gardens full of health-giving vegetables and fruit.
Preserving surplus like our grand parents did for a ‘Rainy Day’.
We see panic buying when a supermarket is going to close for one day which means that too many people are not food secure for even a few days.
I am very interested to hear from readers that have also noticed problems in their gardens, lack of insects etc as I can pass the information on though my articles and the recorded gardening programs with Rodney Hide on Reality Check Radio such as at this link plus many other discussions with yours truly.
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Yes, Common sense and service have most certainly disappeared.
We can also add to the list of long forgotten traits of
Logic, critical thinking, problem solving, compassion, empathy, ethical values, respect for fellow humans and the environment and a strong sense of a moral compass.
Unfortunately the graveyard of decent virtues only gets bigger by the day
This is such an important subject Wally, thank you for bringing it to our attention and putting it in the spotlight. We should all be insisting that these ridiculous chemtrails stop right now and politicians must stop raving on about C02 which is vital for our existence, and that of nature, too. Thank you again.
You can be sure of one thing Wally, it’s not for your benefit.
My young family and I live in Canterbury also. I’ve been watching the skies change dramatically in the last 4 years or so. There always seems to be a ring around the sun after they do there spraying from the planes. I try and talk to my husband about it (he works in aviation) and he thinks I’m crazy! Also, even the cloud formation on my weather app has changed to those whispy weird clouds and a ring around the sun. Definitely some sort of dimming happening! Even on clear days the sun has a haze. What can we do though? People think I’m insane if I bring it up.
Yes.
I am self sufficient but have noticed stunted plant growth, and delayed maturation of plants compared to other years, and I feel that our systems for gardening were actually better this year and yet…this is the result.
We’ve had a very cloudy summer with a lot of chemtrails, overcast days, damp and cold days. We have had only two days hot enough this summer where we felt compelled to go for a swim.
Had I not built overhead protection we would have not had the plants we currently have due to several heavy hail, and high winds events, and this week its been so cold we have had the fires on – all usually typical of winter here.
Great article, and I hope it encourages people to recognize what is happening to Mother Earth, what these people playing God think they have the right to do! They have NO RIGHT and we must all stand up to this evil, because that’s what it is, evil! Destroying our livelihoods, our beautiful nature and precious wildlife…It has to stop….I’ve been trying to expose 5G radiation and weather manipulation for years, I’m fed up and we need to demand answers from these insane humans who allow it to happen….
I have noticed the last two years December weather has been very unsettled and much colder than previous Decembers, and Spring is in effect an extension of winter with no periods of settled fine weather. My fruit trees,apricots plums and peaches that were previously producing an abundance of fruit in the summer the last two years have produ ed little or no fruit.its like the seasons are changing their start and end points while the internal clocks of the trees have not adapted. Blossums are not being pollinated because of a lack of bees and continuous wild weather throught spring and december. I have had the heater on and winter clothes into late december this year, and the night temperatures this summer have been freezing. Normally summer nights are hot and we have the fan on through the day and night, but this summer the fan has only been on one day and one night. Things have definitely changed the last couple of years, mainly much cooler weather in summer and extended periods of stormy cold weather when there was previously fine settled weather.
In addition to the above, my lawn hasnt grown this summer either. Normal summers i need to cut the grass every 2 weeks. This summer i have only needed to cut it twice the whole season. No growth at all. I suspect its due to the colder than normal nights, which metservice record as 15 or 16 degrees, but this is total bollocks as they are more like 6 or 7 degrees, very cold for summer nights. I live an hour north of Auckland.
We live in the Wairarapa and have noticed changes, particularly in fruit from our citrus and Feijoas, but tomatoes have been prolific. We also have noted the odd cloud formations and the fluctuating temperatures. does not seem to be any “normal” consistency.
I travelled to ashburton and timaru last March. 2023. There was a weird kind of haze that seemed to be hanging around that didn’t seem to want to let the sun shine properly.
Here in the north I have noticed the same. We get chemtrails and not long after the sky hazes over.
2023 was really bad in terms of sunlight. It’s been a little better since the demise of the Labour government.
What I want to know is who is responsible for releasing these chemicals into our atmosphere down here? Do they do the cloud seeding in Australia and it drifts over here or are there local pilots doing it? Whoever it is shame on you!
While we are being called conspiracy theorists, you don’t have to look far to find patents in the US for cloud seeding, blocking the sun and controlling tornadoes etc. look up “make sunsets” for example. In Australia there are companies who will create rain for farmers etc. what happens to all that rain? Does it come to New Zealand? I am so over being gaslit and lied to by these devils who are hell bent on ruining this beautiful earth so they can make money and control people. It’s evil.
I flew to the US to visit my family last November. On return, coming into Chicago, to catch one of the direct flights back to Auckland, the plane I was on has to fly out over the Great Lake there, which Chicago sits on the shore of. It then has to U-turn and approach the runway to land at O’hare. Chicago is cold in November and there was snow on the ground when I could see the ground thru breaks in the clouds. The plane I was on did a gentle swerve to the left of it’s flight path and then I saw why. I had a window seat on the righ side of the plane. We were very close to another jet to the right. As it flew past, it did not change it’s course and out the back of it, not out the wings but out the very butt of this jet, was a continuous cloud of beige coloured plume of something. We were very close to this jet and it did not look like a military plane. It looked like a civilian jet and I wish I knew more about the models of jets to say what it was but it just looked like another commercial jet. Wish I had a camera on hand to take a photo. I did not carry a phone with me on that visit. Yes, you can travel without one. And where we live in the Hokianga on the west coast we see these “trails” laid just out to sea across the harbour mouth going almost parallel to the harbour entrance. Sometimes they are laid to the south east over the land and then you can see these spread out across the sky. This year, all our fejoias started to fill up with loads of fruit then just fell off the trees about 2 weeks ago. We have rampant blackberry up here, it’s everywhere and yet no berries this year at all. I mean I think I saw 3 berries and we usually could eat our fill just walking around our driveway and the hills around. Our plum trees did well but all our greens did not do well at all. When it rains, I start to sneeze and have severe hayfever symptoms. My husband gets reactive too but not as bad as i react. I’d like to get our rainwater tested too. And we are under the flight path for jets flying north to the islands and Aussie. I can hear them before we see them and they do not drop anything. It’s got to be a special plane and they drop this stuff again, in only one or 2 places up here. Something definitely being tested again here without our knowledge as usual.