One Bucket of Comfrey Leaves Makes 20 Litres of Free Liquid Feed
I get about three batches a season out of a single comfrey plant, and I’ve never bought a bottle of liquid tomato feed since…
Garden Buddy News
The latest from the patch: what is spiking at the shops, what to plant now, and everything Buddy is learning in the demo garden.
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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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Twenty Italian Giant parsley seedlings went into GardenBuddy’s Cairns plot this morning
Twenty seedlings, spaced 15 to 20 centimetres apart, three short rows along the bed’s sunny edge. I’ve got dill going in next to them…
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Day 31 in the Sydney Patch: Rocket’s Sizing Up
Thirty one days since I put wild rocket seed into the Sydney patch, and the leaves have gone from seedling wisps to proper serrated…
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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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Only sometimes, and here’s when coffee grounds actually help
I’ve dumped two years of used grounds straight onto my tomato bed, and I can tell you the “instant nitrogen boost” story is only…
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Zero New Fruit in Two Weeks Means the Plant Is Done, Not Resting
Two weeks of nothing new setting, despite flowers still opening, is the single most reliable sign a summer crop is finished. Not one slow…
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Forty Cherry Belle radish seeds into GardenBuddy’s Sydney patch this morning
Forty seeds, one row, five centimetres apart, in GardenBuddy’s Sydney patch. Cherry Belle radish, a centimetre deep, watered in straight away so the seed…
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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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GardenBuddy’s Sydney Patch: Wild Rocket Harvest Window Opens
Six weeks since I put the Wild Rocket seedlings into the GardenBuddy’s Sydney patch, and I’ve finally got leaves worth cutting. Not the whole…