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Gardening with Wally Richards: That problem to grow and plant garlic

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I remember times gone by when you could take a clove of garlic, push it into some fertile growing medium and about 6 months...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Leaves and robbers

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I was asked by a reader recently what is best way to use leaf fall from deciduous trees which is happening right now. In the...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Winter and frosts

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In New Zealand, the official winter months are June, July and August. As a Southern Hemisphere country, these months bring the coldest temperatures, shortest days,...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Autumn Gardens

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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: Plants for free

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A gardener has asked me to write a column on obtaining plants for free, especially from cuttings so your wish is my command. There are...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Getting prepared for winter

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I cannot recall a February in New Zealand that was not always the hottest month of the year. The nationwide average temperature in February 2026...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Protecting fruit

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Recently I have had several readers asking about the problems that they are having with fruit they grow. There are two aspects, one is diseases...

Gardening with Wally Richard: Garden questions with answers

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Hello readers, some of you may have tuned in this week to the webinar on RCR with me and Rodney Hide discussing gardening matters. There...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Using microbes to solve problems

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Soil microbes in a garden live in high to low population cycles related to moisture, temperature, and fresh organic matter, and together they drive...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Garden and lose weight

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It's an interesting thought, do gardening and loose weight; it can happen. There are a number of reasons why we consume more food than what...

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...

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