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Yearly Archives: 2019

Garden Pond Edible Forest Garden — This is part three in my three-part series on creating a resilient garden ecosystem. In this blog post I discuss some design techniques to help your garden landscape become a low maintenance resilient foodscape! Avoid large patches of monocultures and rows in the garden If you plant a long row […]

Garden Ecosystems Part Three: How to Turn your Garden into ...

This entry was posted in How to Grow on September 2, 2019 by Leaf, Root & Fruit

Hoverflies are great beneficila insects — My blog post on pest predator dynamics highlighted the importance of treating your garden as an ecosystem. I also discussed “good bugs” and “bad bugs” to show the importance of beneficial insects in the garden. Here I identify some great strategies for attracting beneficial insects or “good bugs” into the […]

Garden Ecosystems Part Two: Attracting Beneficial Insects into the Garden

This entry was posted in Garden Pests on August 26, 2019 by Leaf, Root & Fruit

Start seeing your outdoor space as an ecosystem rather than a garden The more I learn about edible gardening, the more I learn the importance of “bugs” in successful gardening. Often, you are too busy concentrating on day to day gardening tasks to see that pest issues come and go […]

Garden Ecosystems Part One: Pest Predator Dynamics and Balance

This entry was posted in Garden Pests on August 20, 2019 by Leaf, Root & Fruit

Soil conditioners for vegetable gardens Melbourne — My “grow trials” are proving very popular with local gardeners. In the past, I have trialled different potting mixes and also different chemical and liquid fertilisers. This summer I have trialled some different soil conditioners available to all of our gardeners. I focussed on options that are relatively easy to […]

Plant Soil Conditioner Trial

This entry was posted in Experiments Projects on March 6, 2019 by Leaf, Root & Fruit