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Gardening with Wally Richards: Spud growing time

Growing your own potatoes may take a bit of garden room, for those with smaller sections, but the advantages of having your own freshly...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Fruit tree planting time

Now is the time of the year that sees the arrival of this season's deciduous fruit trees, into garden centres. There is a very good...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Replacing lost minerals and elements

There are 114 natural minerals and elements known to our scientists and these are found in perfect balance in the non polluted blue waters...

NZ urged to ban engineered stone over Silicosis risks

A group of unions and public health experts is advocating for a ban on engineered stone, citing the material's links to the lung disease...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Soil diseases

Soils contain diverse communities of microscopic organisms some of which (pathogens) are capable of damaging plants. Pathogens may grow in the soil feeding on the...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Around the corner

We have started into a new growing season now that the shortest day is behind us, sunlight time increasing slowly minute by minute till...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Early season start

Each year in the winter I have been chaffing at the bit to get an early start to the new season because the earlier...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Plants in winter

Before we get onto this weeks subject; a question that was asked this week from a gardener who has wood ash from a fire...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Start of a new season – Your food and your health go hand in hand

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Hippocrates, father of medicine, 431 B.C. Now there is nothing simpler than that statement and...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Getting started

If you're a gardener like me we are chaffing at the bit to get started for the new season. Now with only 4 weeks to...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Strawberry time

May is the traditional month when new seasons strawberry plants become available in garden centres. The nurseries that grow the plants lift them after the...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Winter clean up time

In the house we do spring cleaning but in the garden we are best to do a winter clean up. There are many aspects of...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Bryophytes

Bryophytes is a name that you are not likely familiar with but if I was to say moss or liverwort you would know about...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Garlic

Many years ago you could put a few cloves into friable, free draining, fertile soil with their points upwards and their bums down, some...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Confirmation

I have in my articles and books for some years stated that our commercially grown food chain is poor in nutrition but high in...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Minerals from the ocean

A reader recently asked me to write an article about the advantages of using pure salt from the ocean in the garden for its...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Winter is coming … get ready your gardens

Firstly those reading this during Easter; I wish you all a happy Easter and travel safely. If not traveling then enjoy your garden and get...

Gardening with Wally Richards: The Invisible Rainbow

Firstly I give you fair warning this weeks article is not directly about gardening but it is very important to all living species on...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Camouflage

The dictionary definition of camouflage is a condition in which the appearance of someone or something when placed against a background makes the person...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Potting mixes

Having been part of the horticulture industry for most of my working life I have noted many changes and one which I and others...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Serious Stuff

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...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Gardening for high health nutrition

Anyone can grow some food crops for their health without having to be a active gardener, in fact anyone can grow a range of...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Looking after Citrus trees

Growing citrus trees for their fruit, glossy foliage and heavenly perfume is a New Zealand tradition. In years gone by just about every garden had...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Sulphur

There is a range of minerals and elements which plants need to have to be healthy and grow well; one of these is sulphur. Sulphur...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Dry Spot

Dry spot is the term that is used when the surface tension has increased because of a long period of dryness (in some cases...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Garden problem solutions

The tomato/potato psyllid has caused a few headaches for gardeners when the populations of this relatively new pest build up and they affect not...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Summer pests

Gardening should be a pleasant past time and not just another chore that has to be done. If you find it a chore then maybe...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Wishing you a great gardening New Year

As we close the door on the year 2023 and look to a new year in front of us and interesting times that lay...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Pestie Pests

Insects that eat, or feed off, our garden plants we call them pest insects but they are just part of the Natural World we...

Gardening with Wally Richards: For the week ending 9th December

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

Gardening with Wally Richards: Perkfection

Here is an interesting story: Many years ago the New Zealand supplier of several products we repackage for the home garden market suggested a...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Growing giants

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: Mycorrcin, getting a far better garden

I was asked a very interesting question a while back which went like this, 'How come my parents and grandparents had such bountiful gardens?' 'Everything...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Gardening tasks

Now that we are halfway through Spring and quickly heading to Summer (December) there is a fair bit to do in our gardens so...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Codling, Guava Moths and Army Worm

It is that time when fruit is setting and soon to be attacked from the grubs of moths: Codling and Guava. Guava moth is mostly...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Pollination

I wrote an article on pollination and published in February this year as a number of gardeners were concerned that fruit was not setting...

Gardening with Wally Richards: The perfect raised garden

Several years ago in the place where I was living; I had given over the back yard to a flock of chickens which made...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Bringing the ocean to your garden

The first thing too realise is that plants will take up any minerals or elements that are in the growing medium along with any...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Control garden pests early

Spring not only brings forth a new season of gardening it also is the starting time for a several pest problems. If you dont want...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Tomato Psyllid problems

True to form spring started on the 1st September across New Zealand and with it a surge in gardeners visiting gardening shops and buying...

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