This month is all about harvesting nuts, preparing deciduous fruit trees for winter, caring for citrus and planning new fruit/shelter/ nut trees. Citrus Care Young developing fruits alert you to pay attention. The adult crop relies on actions taken now: good moisture, thinning, mulching and at this time of year – rat control too! Moisture […]
April In The Greenhouse
By | LastUpdated April 1, 2024
The greenhouse soil has worked hard in the summer heat, and needs a bit of love before planting the next lot of crops out. Create space As long as tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and aubergines are still producing, leave them in for handy little harvests. Give them a big clean up though, to free up space […]
Step by Step to a Perfectly Fed Vegie Patch
By | LastUpdated September 30, 2024
Overfeeding is easily done. Surrounded as we are, by seductive marketing and miracle soil food, home gardeners fertilise wildly. Less really is more. All you need provide is just enough. Today I hope to bring you clarity and ease, as I explain why you feed + what to use + how much your soil needs, […]
Soil Preps for Heavy Feeder Crops
By | LastUpdated April 2, 2024
Heavy feeders are called heavy feeders because they are hungrier than light feeders. It’s not that they need piles of fertiliser, what they need, is just enough… steady, not boom and bust. Overfeeding is, long term, perhaps worse than under feeding. Today is all about how much, is enough. Check your soil first Always start […]
Garden Coach: How it Works + Why 20mins is Perfect!
By | LastUpdated October 1, 2024
Garden Coaching is a 20minute chat with me, over zoom, to resolve your edible garden woes – fruit trees, vegies, chooks, compost – whatever has you confused or stuck. 20 mins may sound short, but in my many years of guiding gardeners, I’ve figured out that little bites of the apple, work the very best. […]
April in the Vegie Patch + Step by step to perfectly fed soil
By | LastUpdated April 1, 2024
In this months newsletter, I’m pretty excited to share with you “Step by step to a perfectly fed soil.” Perfect in this case, means just right – not too much, not too little. The goldilocks point. And when you find it, everything comes into line, hence my excitement! Overfeeding, you see, is the cause of […]
