Green Onions Are the One Vegetable You’ll Never Need to Buy Again
Green onions will grow almost anywhere, need very little fuss, and can be picked right through most of the year, according to a piece…
Category: Garden Stories
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Why 57% of our price data used to be blank
Fifty seven percent of our price checks used to come back with nothing in them. Not a wrong number, not a stale one. Nothing.…
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Your garden map now knows where north is
Tired of guessing which way your garden faces? Our compass tool orients beds to north, calculates shadow patterns, and helps you place crops for…
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Urea’s Cheap Right Now, and That’s Exactly Why I’m Not Relying On It
Urea has gone from scarce to oversupplied in a matter of months. Prices are sliding, and the resellers who stock it are now nervous…
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Coffee grounds in the vegetable garden: what the trial found, and how to use them safely
A Melbourne trial found fresh coffee grounds can stunt plants, and the usual nitrogen explanation did not hold up. Here is what to do…
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Water Security Sells Farms. It Should Run Your Veggie Patch Too
A Riverina grazing and cropping property called Brae Springs just hit the market, and the pitch isn’t the house or the yards. Farm Online…
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Toilet rolls, river sand and a garden that looks dead: how I start spring in the last week of winter
My veggie patch looks finished. It is not, it is loaded. Here is the seed raising mix I use, the free pots I have…
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One Bag of Seed Potatoes Beats a Winter of Shop-Bought Spuds
Gardening Australia’s latest guide backs something I already tell every grower who asks me about winter crops. Potatoes are one of the best value…
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72.6mm of rain in a week. Why I wait four days before planting into wet clay.
Southeast Queensland tracked 72.6mm over seven days in mid-July, with rain probability sitting at 37% most days. That’s not a top up on already…
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Scarlet Runner Beans: An Ornamental Bred for Flowers That Ended Up Outyielding My Whole Bean Patch
I put scarlet runner beans in a trial bed two seasons back expecting a novelty vine with red flowers. I got 4kg of beans…