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The drought showed many that gardening in the future will be dramatically different. Every biological reaction in the garden depends on water, and five months...

How you care for your soil, and grow the plants in your garden, has a flow on effect that is becoming recognised more and more...

There is an army of beneficial insects—spiders, bumble bees, dragonflies, hoverflies, wasps, ladybirds, praying mantis, beetles, earwigs and honey bees just waiting to help us...

Previous columns will have prepared you for summer gardening. Soil nutrients should be in place, mulch has been sourced, pests have been identified and now...

Gardening, like everything else in nature, is based on cycles that are all interdependent. If you want to get on top of insects in your...

The challenge of our time is to create and maintain sustainable communities, and to that end we now have a Seed Savers group here on...

Mention deserts and people picture dry sandy desolate, wind-blown stretches of endless sand. But today, as we continue to pave over and eliminate our natural...

Now that a profusion of Spring flowers is available, making those typical Victorian small circular nosegays of flowers and herbs, called tussie mussies can be...

 How is my garden growing? The raised beds are full of onions, leeks and garlic all of which are loving this colder weather, and the...

We are smack in the middle of a Hibiscus Coast drought with hardly enough water for our household needs, let alone to keep our gardens...