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by Ambre Whatley on Mar 21 2025
Now my main method when not planting directly into the garden bed is in paper pots, made with the 'Pot Maker' in mini green houses. Even without a 'Pot Maker' it is easy to make paper pots.
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by Ambre Whatley on Mar 21 2025
Peas are a legume, part of the Fabaceae or Leguminosae family of vegetables, which extract nitrogen from the air and store it in little nodules along their roots.
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Those Other Annuals Your Garden Needs
by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
Many organic growers concentrate on growing vegetables, herbs, fruit trees - edibles, edibles and more edibles - these are all very good but remember to feed your other senses.
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by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
The most commonly grown cucurbits in the home garden are zucchini, pumpkins, cucumbers, squash, melons and gourds.
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by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
The radish (Raphanus sativus) is an edible root vegetable which is part of the Brassicaceae family.
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Possums - How Can We Protect our Produce?
by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
While I fully believe in sharing with the local native animals there are times when the possums go too far so I am always looking for ways to protect what I don't want to share.
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Bring in the (Fruit Fly) Rellies
by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
I started writing this article twelve months ago when as usual I had been hand pollinating my pumpkins, but, last year they would grow for a couple of days and then start to shrivel and drop off, as if they havenât been pollinated. This could have been the case and maybe the pollen being transferred was of poor quality or maybe it was too hot for them to set, I wasn't sure.
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by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
Portulacas in their various forms are annual succulents but under the right conditions can sometimes grow as perennials. Their leaves vary in shape from cylindrical to flattish and long or flattish and round but all are fleshy.
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by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
Over September and October Iâd been having a problem with silverleaf whiteflies. A couple of years before when my neighbours yard was overgrown and full of weeds, I had silverleaf whiteflies on my cucumbers but after a good dose of Soap Spray I had no more problems until 2009
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by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
Blueberries are members of the Ericaceae family and the Vaccinium genus then below this are many sections and within these sections are even more species.
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Spring is the Time to Select Your Chrysanthemums
by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
What we call a chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum morifolium, commonly referred to as Mums or Chrissies are an easy to grow perennial, native to Asia. The name Chrysanthemum comes from the greek word 'chrysos' meaning gold and 'anthemon' meaning flower, the original chrysanthemums were yellow.
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by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
The 'Green Manure Crop' plants may vary as to the reason you are planting them, the time of year and what you hope to get out of the crop. Most commonly 'Green Manure Crops' consist of a 'grass' and a 'legume'. The 'grass' for organic matter and nutrients and the 'legume' to add nitrogen and other nutrients.
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by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
The broad bean, Vicia Faba, is part of the vetch type of legumes and a distant relative of the French bean. Broad beans are also known by the names Horse bean, English beans, Windsor beans, Fava bean, Faba bean or Tic bean.
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What am I planting now? Quite a lot actually but now is the time to plant your strawberries.
by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
The ideal fruit that we can all grow at home, a fruit that can be grown in any type of home â in a small pot, a large pot, a hanging pot, a polystyrene box, a garden bed or even in a bag of potting mix.
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An Old, Chemical Free Way to Help Control Flies
by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
A number of years ago when listening to afternoon ABC radio (612), there was a recipe given for making your own fly paper. This being the time of the year for the fly population to increase I thought I might give it a go.
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Chervil - Grow a Little Something That Bestows Youth Upon the Aged
by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
CHERVIL - GROW A LITTLE SOMETHING THAT BESTOWS YOUTH UPON THE AGED Â Â Â Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium) is an annual herb related to parsley and carrots and is also known as garden chervil, gourmet's parsley and French parsley and was once known as âmyrrhisâ because it has a similar aroma to myrrh (you remember the 3 wise men).
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by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
The violet will grow in most soils but does best in well-drained, fairly rich soil, with a good helping of compost and some blood and bone. It will grow in full sun or part shade and prefers our cooler months. It is an ideal plant for the general garden, borders, rockeries and also pots and hanging baskets.
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by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
SEED SAVINGÂ This article evolved from a list of seeds from an old BOGI newsletter sent to me by Margaret and an insert in a recent edition of the Courier mail. Without getting technical a seed is the result of a flower having a sexual interaction, either with itself or with another flower of the same family. This seed is part of the developing fruit which when ripe becomes mature and ready to grow into an offspring of the parent plant/s.
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by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
Fenugreek, Trigonella foenum-graecum, also known as Greek Hay, Greek Clover, Menthi, Cooper's Clover, Alhova cow's horn, goat's horn and Bird's Foot, is a legume and closely related to many varieties of beans and peas.
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by Eden Seeds on Mar 21 2025
Several BOGI members took time to browse through Jocelyn  garden. Although in the middle of suburbia Jocelynâs garden is fully A Grade Certified Organic, this process has taken the past 3 years to complete but now allows Jocelyn to sell her produce as âCertified Organicâ.