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Gardening
Gardening – Combatting guava moth
There are a select handful of garden pests that really crank my handle. These are pests that cause lots of damage, are hard to control...
Gardening – Dramatic final flourish
Flower spikes more than a metre long have emerged lately from several Agave attenuata plants around the Coast, where they are common in gardens both...
Gardening – Winter planting
Over the last few weeks winter has arrived with a vengeance. For gardeners, this is traditionally a quieter time as the lush growth of summer...
Gardening – Autumn is here
Anyone who doubted that we have a subtropical climate here in Northern Rodney will have had that notion well and truly dispelled this summer; it...
Gardening – The Lilliputian garden
You’d be forgiven for thinking that home gardening is endangered, as the size of the space around newly built houses and apartments shrinks to almost...
Gardening – Fresh Salmon with herbs
My pick for Spring seed sowing would be root vegetables like Japanese turnips, swedes, carrots, and parsnips. There will also be time for planting seedlings...