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Articles
Fertiliser for Vegies
Feeding Vegetables.
If we want to grow top quality vegetables as fast as possible and whats more, efficiently, then we have provide these plants with a balanced diet by adding all the essential nutrients necessary for this optimum growth.
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How to start a vegie garden
Creating a vege garden is a challenge for new time gardeners, but you are amongst friends in every street in New Zealand. If you are not too sure about what to grow and especially if you new to the area then go for a walk and spend some time with your wif...more
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Vegie Gardening
VEGETABLE GARDENING
Vegetable gardening is often viewed as the poor relation of ornamental gardening. When we talk of great gardeners it is far more likely to be their use of ornamentals than their vegetable production that earned them their rep...more
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Tomatoes & Scarlet Runner beans
Botanical Name: Lycopersicum esculentum.
Origin. The tomato is closely related to the potato and the other species of Solanum,
All species have yellow flowers, and red or sometimes yellow fruits.
There are now considered to be about...more
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How to grow your vegetables.
Plan your vege garden in the sunniest part of your garden. You are now ready.
A garden diary to us is important because it tells us success or failure of different crops
Rule of thumb for a new time gardener is to make your vege garden at l...more
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Basic Propagation
Propagating plants can be as simple or advanced as you care to make it. From sowing a few seeds through to multi-grafted trees or a hybridization programme. The most important thing is to not be overawed by the technical side of propagating. Bear in mind ...more
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Grafting
GRAFTING
Grafting is commonly used for propagating selected forms of ornamental trees, conifers, and fruit trees. There are many types grafting but all work on the same principle. Just below the bark is a layer of cells kno...more
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Silver beet & Friends
Silver beet or Swiss Chard [Beta vulgaris, Cicla group] Native to coastal Europe. Every garden should have some plants of this versatile green relative of beetroot. In fact, both are varieties of the same species, but silver beet is grown for its leaves. ...more
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Pruning
Before pruning carefully inspect the plants by checking for dead or dying branches, spray the whole plant with lime sulphur, then start by removing all the dead branches, any that are growing back into the centre of the bush.
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PLUM Varieties and Pollinators
Evans Early yellow flesh None required December
Angelina Burdett yellow flesh/purple skin Grand Duke/Greengage December
Cherry Plum yellow flesh None required December
Wilson’s Early yellow flesh/red skin Doris,Duffs Early Jewel. Dece...more
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Coastal Planting
New Zealanders are well known for their habit of dissapearing to the beach for the Christmas holidays and many of you have baches, cribs or mansions or like me a tent, that is home for several days or weeks. In this coastal environment many plants...more
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Egmont Seeds
Egmont Seeds are NZ distributors for bedding plant and cut flower seeds from
Benary, Daehnfeldt, Elidia, Floranova, Farmen, Goldsmith, Kieft, Pan Am, Sahin,
Takii, Waller, Sakata and many more.
North Waikato Computers
North Waikato Computers Limited is a small Huntly company founded in 1998.
NWC sells and services PC computers for home or business.
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