Lebo Cucumbers: Growing Tips It's cool in your hand even on a hot day. It smells like a garden should. And if one of your kids is alongside you, watch their face as they crunch into it! That moment of “We grew this Mum!” is more ... cucumbers gardening grow your own 17 Oct 2026 0 102
Where There's a Will, There's a Way Our daughter Katie was so excited a couple of years ago that her new home had a space out the back where she could grow a veggie garden. She soon discovered that it was so shaded that most of her plan... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 80
Living With Nature: Protecting Your Garden From Wildlife Each month Rod does an interview on FaithFM radio's Breakfast Show where he talks about all things country living. This past week the topic was the blessings and cursings of having wildlife in our liv... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 87
Rain & Soil: Why We Won't Work Our Garden When It's Wet Some rain is good, but when we experience protracted rain, we quickly get behind in our work program. The major tasks that are affected (other than our attitudes) are: preparing beds for new crops to ... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 111
Mustard Greens, Stage 2: Grafted Tomatoes and Biofumigation Progress Back in May we wrote about the soil-borne pathogens that devastated our precious tomato crop last summer, and how we were taking steps to avoid repeating that again: 1) grow varieties with resistance ... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 90
Biofumigant Update: Mustard Greens Progress Report Back in May, we wrote about the soil-borne pathogens that devastated our tomato and eggplant crops last summer, most likely Fusarium - a fungal disease that affects the plant's vascular tissues so the... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 71
Biofumigation: Using Mustard Greens to Fight Soil-Borne Disease Last summer held its own horrors in our garden's polyhouses as over a thousand of our precious tomato plants wilted and died. They would grow beautifully to flowering, even setting fruit, and then ove... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 105
Broccoli's Hidden Hunger: What Purple Leaves Are Telling You This cold time of year some of our broccoli plants do not grow to their potential and instead develop purplish tinged leaves, and produce small heads. This is due to a complex intersection between the... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 74
Is Your Garden Ready For Spring? August on the mid-north coast is a sweet spot - winter is mostly behind us, and (except for some welcome chilly mornings), the warmth is starting to creep back in day by day. Anticipation is building!... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 70
Starting a Vegetable Garden from Scratch Establishing a garden in a new place is an exciting but challenging endeavor. If it is to produce an abundant harvest for you and your family, here are a few steps I suggest you take in its developmen... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 62
Masters Of Fresh, Desley Bailey These Bad Girls - too much rain leads to powdery mildew There's no doubt these girls are struggling. Growing cucumbers in June on our farm at Rollands Plains, outside Port Macquarie, is a hard ask at the best of times. In spite of the genetics that help th... cucumbers gardening grow your own organic 10 Aug 2025 0 336
