Banana Peels and Eggshells Turn Into Fertiliser in 2 Weeks, for Free
A banana peel is loaded with potassium. An eggshell is mostly calcium carbonate. Neither one does much sitting in landfill, but steeped in water…
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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Harvest window: NZ Spinach, GardenBuddy’s Cairns plot
Six and a half weeks in, and I’ve been out checking leaf size every second morning. The NZ Spinach in GardenBuddy’s Cairns plot went…
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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…
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A Snath Long Enough at Last, and the Animals That Close the Circle
My new scythe snath is finally long enough, so the grass gets cut by hand and goes straight to the animals. A few words…
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Food Prices Could Double This Year. Here’s What To Plant Before That Lands.
Schroders, the global investment firm, has modelled a specific number: food prices in advanced economies could double within about a year if this El…
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A Cold Start, a New Onion Bed and Another Silverbeet Glut
A cold morning start, a second attempt at onions in stubborn clay soil, and a silverbeet glut that keeps giving. Here’s the full method…
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Aphid Spray That Actually Works: One Teaspoon of Soap Per Litre, Reapplied Every Three Days
A simple homemade aphid spray using one teaspoon of pure liquid soap per litre of water. Learn the right mix ratio, application timing, and…
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The El Niño Outlook Says Dry. Here’s What I’m Planting Before the Shelf Notices
I checked my own price tracker before I sat down to write this. Nothing has moved yet. No spike, no shortage, nothing on the…
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40 Italian Giant seeds, 15cm apart, into GardenBuddy’s Sydney patch this morning
Forty seeds. Fifteen to twenty centimetres apart, in three short rows along the eastern edge of GardenBuddy’s Sydney patch. That’s today’s job, and it…
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One Garlic Bed, $2,955: What Happens When You Actually Fill In the Planner
A three-and-a-half-minute screen recording shows exactly how the Garden Buddy Planner works: draw a bed, drop in a crop, and watch the live dollar…