Organic gardening – Page 2

Balcony Garden & Container Gardening Ideas

Houses are getting bigger and yards are getting smaller. Yet everyone still wants to grow vegetables. With little space available now, you can set up a balcony garden and grow edibles in containers instead. Someone with a lot of experience growing in pots is New...

Mental Health Benefits of a Vegetable Garden

Today’s post is a guest post from Helen Gough.* There are many practical reasons why people choose to grow their own vegetables. Many enjoy having their own, customized garden full of fresh, organic produce with no added chemicals or pesticides. For others it is...

Friends & Foes in Australian Gardens

BOOK REVIEW PESTS, DISEASES AND BENEFICIALS – Friends and Foes of Australian Gardens. David Hockings AM, March 2014, CSIRO publishing. Paperback, 280 pages. RRP $39.95 PESTS, DISEASES AND BENEFICIALS – Friends and Foes of Australian Gardens is a book for...

Saving Vegetable Seeds

Some years are better than others when it comes to harvesting your own home grown vegetables. When a bumper crop comes around the best thing you can do is to save the seed from this harvest to ensure your best chances of success and reproduce those same results next...

Bicarb Soda as a Garden Fungicide

How many of you use bicarb soda in your garden? Maybe you’re familiar with it as a means to clean your house without chemicals, but do you know how good it is for controlling garden problems too? The use of baking soda to control fungal diseases attacking vegetables...