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Neem Tree granules and powder

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In India the kernels of the Neem Tree are collected and cold pressed to extract the Neem oil which is used to control insect...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Controlling some pests

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I am often asked about how to control populations of slugs and earwigs in gardens without using the usual chemicals. This is particularly important in...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Bryophytes (Moss and Liverworts)

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Bryophytes and Embryophytes are the botanical names given to mosses, lichen, liverworts, hornworts, molds, algae and slime. These are primate plant-like forms which were the...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Autumn leaf fall

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A reader from Southland emailed me this week and asked if I could write an article about what to do with autumn leaves. For some...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Growing Food

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I wrote this article 8 years ago and to this day I have found it to be the best and less expensive way to...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Preparing for winter

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I don't know about you? But I have starting to put on a jersey in the morning, off during the day and back on...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Apple Cider Vinegar

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A reader and keen gardener sent me an email recently about using apple cider vinegar in your garden to prevent and control fungus diseases. Someone...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Grow your own seeds

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Raising plants from seeds is a great sense of achievement for most gardeners and when the seeds are the ones you collected for free...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Powdery Mildew and other diseases

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This is the time of the year that the disease called Powdery Mildew will attack a number of plants in your garden. Powdery mildew is...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Food

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A renowned or maybe infamous statesman, Henry Kissinger is known for, amongst many other things, his quotes one of which is: 'Who controls the food...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Climate change

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I remember about 15-20 years ago writing about pending climate change with temperatures forecast to rise and suggesting how great that will be as...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Insect pests

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Having a neat summer for a change has brought a problem for many gardeners and that is the number of insect pests such as...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Solving Problems – grass and container plants

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There are two problems that I was asked about this week and they maybe ones that also affect your gardening endeavors. The first is brown...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Avoiding mistakes

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Every week I receive phone calls from gardeners that are having problems with their tomatoes, beans and roses. Within no time at all they are...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Protecting your sprays

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If you are like myself I only spray my plants and gardens as I need to for any problems that occur (insect pests and...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Happy New Year (at least hopefully happier than 2021)

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The first subject is an important one and one I published 2016 (remember 2016?). It was a far better country then and if you had...

Gardening with Wally Richards: December in the garden

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December, the first month of Summer and at this time our thoughts are more on Christmas rather than the garden. If we neglect the garden...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Annual bug pests

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This is the time of the year some of a gardener's bug enemies get out and cause damage. I have had my first phone call...
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