ZEALAND - Garden Guide
Sampler of Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit
Here is a sampler of unusual fruits showing up on temperate climate farms and in nurseries. Their rarity in your location, of course, depends on your growing region.Sea Buckthorn (Hipprophae rhamnoides)A very productive northern f
Aperitif Hybrid Tea Rose
The latter part of last summer was hot and droughty in Westminster. I went to look at a garden, locally, on top of a windy hill that is quite exposed to the worst of winter's harshness. Included was a small rose garden. Due to...
Herbal Medicine Chest in Your Backyard
What could be easier than growing an herb garden with no effort? Of course, you'll have to harvest your weeds, but you would do that anyhow: it's called weeding.Spring is an especially fertile time for harvesting your weeds -...
Organic Gardening with Perennial Vegetables
All organic gardeners love the time of year when the last frost have been, the soil is warming up and the daffodils alert us to the fact that spring is here. ItÂ’s time to start planting your annual vegetable garden.But what a...
Island Gardens
With the approach of winter, my thoughts turn to travel–especially to sunny islands where I can snorkel, swim and enjoy walks through lush tropical vegetation. I have a special fascination for islands, probably because I live...
Organic Pesticides for Safer Living
USE ORGANIC PESTICIDES
You do not need to buy costly chemical fertilizer or pesticide sprays.
Some good pesticides come straight from your kitchen cupboards.This is a recipe for canola oil spray which suffocates soft body...
Gardens of New Zealand
When I was a teenager in school my hero was Captain James Cook, the British sea captain who made three voyages of circumnavigation around the world, before being killed by cannibals in the Hawaiian Islands, which he discovered....
Starting an Organic Garden
Starting an organic garden isn't that difficult. If you already grow vegetables, fruit or herbs, all you need to do is change some of your methods, so that, for example, rather than blasting a pest with chemicals, you protect...
Organic Fruit and Vegetable Boxes
Organic fruit and vegetable boxes are gaining in popularity as consumers become increasingly alarmed by the dangers of pesticide residue. Organic fruit and vegetable boxes are not available in every place, but some places have...
What Worms Tell You About Your Soil
When you see worms in soil you can be certain that the quality of the soil is excellent. It will be rich in organic matter and valuable nutrients. It will be well aired with good drainage.Where there is an abundance of worms in...
Ornamental Grasses Six Of The Very Best
Ornamental grasses for dry gravel and prairie style plantings. My six very best recomendations.If you have ever thought about a drought resistant low maintenances garden with tough disease free easy to grow plants but still...
Ground Cover Junipers-The Green Mound Juniper-Juniperus Procumbens Nana
The Green Mound Juniper is an exciting and versatile ground cover juniper despite the rather uninspiring name by which it is known (in North America at least). The term "Green Mound Juniper" does describe the plant in a basic...
Vegetable Gardening on Hard Clay
Vegetable gardening can be one of the most rewarding experiences in life. Eating your own fresh vegetables picked straight off the plant or fresh from the ground with the real taste still intact beats store brought produce...
Cycad Ferox - Encephalartos Ferox
DescriptionE. ferox is not usually regarded as having much of an exposed trunk, although it is certainly possible to find specimens in the wild with stems of up to 2m above ground level. Branching of the trunk is uncommon and...
Add Interest To Your Garden With Pampas Grass
Pampas grass is one grass is a worthy grass for any garden or landscape. It is also known as the Cortaderia Selloana or the Uruguayan Pampas Grass. It is part of the Poaceae family and of the genus Cortaderia.This tall grass is...
How Genetic Engineering Has Created Large Varieties Of Apple Trees
As technology advances, more and more options are opened up. Suddenly, there are new types of electronic music, new ways of reading books, new ways to communicate and yes, new types of apple trees to buy!Because of genetic...
Simple Gardening - What to Grow? Article 2
In this series of 10 articles we will discuss the process of creating a simple garden.Now that you have learnt what type of soil you have, and conditioned it, you now need to think about what type of plants you are going to...
Organic Fruit And Vegetable Boxes
Organic fruit and vegetable boxes are gaining in popularity as consumers become increasingly alarmed by the dangers of pesticide residue. Organic fruit and vegetable boxes are not available in every place, but some places have...