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Gardening with Wally Richards: Start the year off right in your garden

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Firstly I will wish you a happy, healthy New Year and enjoy Nature through your garden. The following is a article I wrote 24 years...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Honeydew

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Honeydew is a polite name for insect pee. Pest insects that suck on plants such as aphids take in sap from the foliage which is...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Gardening matters

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As Christmas approaches it is a busy time in the garden for many, early planted crops are now being harvested or coming towards maturity. The...

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...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Coffee grounds and Neem granules

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I am sometimes asked about what are the benefits of using coffee grounds around gardens? So using my favourite A1 search engine 'Perplexity' I found...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Getting an early start

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Like all keen gardeners we want to get off to an early start for the new season and with the day light hours increasing...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Earth building

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If you want to grow plants, plus you want to grow plants successfully you have to provide them with a growing medium that is...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Time to Start Tomatoes

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The first tomato plants in Mitre 10 and garden centres are now available for the new season and the sooner you get started the...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Here comes spring

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At the time of writing this, here in Marton, we have a beautiful sunny day and all the signs of Spring with the beginnings...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Tattie Time

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Yes the annual event of planting potatoes has started for those gardeners that like to grow a few spuds. Potatoes eaten in the many forms...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Trees and stump problems

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Trees can be a blessing and some times an annoyance. Trees provide shelter, reduce noise, enhance landscape and great to climb on when young and...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Time to get sowing

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Now we are past the shortest day it is time to get sowing seeds or planting seedlings. Growing plants, flowers or vegetables from seed is...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Weeds

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With the weather we are currently having, has lead to a slow but sure, continual growth of weeds. I was quite surprised how the weeds...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Garlic

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Yes readers it's that time of the year when we once again plant our garlic cloves and dream of big fat bulbs in December/January...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Questions

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Many of my weekly readers will know that I do gardening programs on Reality Check Radio with Rodney Hide and from what I understand...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Importance of minerals

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Wallys Unlocking the soil (ULS) is designed to work in the soil, increasing the mineral content to the benefit of the health of the...

Gardening with Wally Richards: New Roses

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May and June might be slower times in the garden with plants and weeds in a more dormant state, but its this dormancy that...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Fruit for autumn

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There are a few worthwhile fruit trees that ripen their fruit in the autumn/winter period after most other fruits are finished for the season. The...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Strawberry time

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It maybe the last few days of autumn with winter fast approaching, but it is not a slack time in the garden, especially with...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Plant diseases

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There are only a few plant diseases that many gardeners worry about because they make their plants look unsightly or blemish their food crop's...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Autumn gardens and Happy Easter

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Autumn is a great time for planting out gardens and besides the planting of vegetables and flowering plants, you also have a great range...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Revolutionary new plant protection

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Over the years it has been my pleasure to introduce new and innovative gardening products which solve the various problems that us gardeners have. For...

Making use of garden and kitchen wastes

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We have a lot of garden waste from the average size garden and all of it can be put to good use rather than...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Two topics – where it went wrong and about using Neem tree granules

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I find it an intriguing aspect of Nature how plants, soil, insects and bacteria all work in harmony in a natural setting, aiding and...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Time is running out

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It is now just about the end of February and every day the daylight hours are becoming shorter. In New Zealand, the reduction of daylight...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Gardening tips galore

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Over the years I have suggested many different ways of improving or making your gardening efforts more successful and so now is a good...

Gardening with Wally Richards: A new solution to an old problem

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Gardeners have ample things to contend with in our gardening pursuits, some which can be quite disheartening. One of my disappointments has to be a...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Problem solving

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Yesterday I was watering the house plants that live in our home using a plastic watering can that has the rose head removed so...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Bugs

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Bugs are often the things that gardeners have on their minds and on their plants this time of the year. They can be very annoying...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Getting better results with your garden sprays

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There are two types of sprays that we use in our gardens, contact sprays which sit on the surface of the plant's foliage and...

Gardening with Wally Richards: When to plant

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With a great number of first time gardeners growing their own vegetables, a question that I am often asked is; when is the best...
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