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- Carrot seed collection Too easy to collect; one plant would feed the neighbourhood!
- Carrot Seeds - how to collect them Too simple - leave one carrot to 'go to seed'
- Building An Elevated Waist High / No Dig Garden Bed The beauty of an elevated waist high garden bed is that it's a no dig garden, it's extremely friendly to the aged and disabled, and if you are away for a month, there are very few weeds in the garden when you get back.
- Assembling Your Plant-A-Genda This photographic guide steps you through how to assemble your new Plant-A-Genda product
- July 2010 Garden news Well, after some 4 or 5 days of really cold, rainy weather, today, here in Armidale, Northern N.S.W., we are having a brilliantly sunny day. Just the right temperature for some serious gardening.
- Keeping Track Of Your Plantings While the Plant-A-Genda product may keep your seeds safe in the correct month of planting, it makes life easier if you also create a calendar to record when you planted rows and also for optimising your planting in the seasons to come.
- Seeds for Good Health – How Eating More Vegetables Will Benefit You 'Seeds' for Good Health is not to be sneezed at! It's an extremely effective way of improving your health and quality of life, and can be achieved through this natural and healthy selection of foods.
- Are You A Beginner Veggie Gardener? Are you a beginner veggie gardener? Or have you been collecting seeds and need to get organized? If so, then the Plant-A-Genda is for you. Read more about this product in our write up.
- What To Do With Unrecyclable Rubbish Although many things can be recycled these days, there are still things which may remain in your general rubbish which can also be recycled effiiciently by other means aside from your general pickup or drop of recycling centre.
- Compost Heaps Help Your Seeds Grow! Composting can make a huge difference to your garden, and is also a good sustainble practice. A neat compost heap can be made up from just an old rubbish bin with the bottom removed and holes drilled in the sides.
- Healthy Lifestyles Can Start In Schools A healthy lifestyle and good life skills can easily be integrated into childrens school and home activities. This information provides some information and projects which teachers and parents can take to help kids they work with enjoy gardening and develop some really healthy habbits and life skills.
- Choosing Your Climate Climate has a big effect when growing vegetables and herbs, and correctly identifying the climate you are in will help greatly in identifying what to grow and when to grow it, ensuring a year round productive garden.
- Celeriac Celeriac resembles celery in the leaves, and the smell. It is very low in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber [2g], Vitamin B6, Magnesium, Potassium and Manganese, and a very good source of Vitamin C and Phosphorus.
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Compost Heaps Help Your Seeds Grow!
A neat compost heap can be made using an old rubbish bin that has the bottom removed, and holes drilled in the sides.
Composting can be really easy if you remember the formula: 1 part nitrogen to 25 parts carbon.
Nitrogen [activator] comes in the form of comfrey, poultry and other manure, hair clippings [get them from your hairdresser], coffee grinds [get them from your coffee shop], dandelions, yarrow, fresh grass clippings, tea leaves, Lucerne, seaweed, fruit and vegetable peelings.
Carbon: Dry leaves, straw, rushes, dry grass, paper, cardboard, sawdust, vacuum sweepings, Brassica stalks, pine needles, wood ash.
If you have the time to turn this, and keep moist, [not wet], each week, you’ll have compost in 2 months time.
If you don’t want to turn it, then accumulate, in 2 different containers, the carbon ingredients and the nitrogen ingredients. When you think you have enough:
First, sprinkle the base with some dolomite, then start filling the bin: first layer with 1cm of nitrogen, followed by next layer of 15 cm carbon, followed by 1cm nitrogen, then 30 cm carbon, 1cm then 30cm etc. until you get to the top. Without turning, you’ll have great soil in 3-4 months.
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