What to Do
Episode: #4 14/04/07
Presenter: Sue McDougall
Growing your own fruit and vegetables is one the highlights of having a garden and one of the great pleasures that Sue gets to share with her kids. With a few cooler days the gardening is beckoning for you to start planting out your own choice of vegetables.
Herbs add so much flavour to the garden and fresh salads only take a matter of minutes to make. Now days we are so impatient and want to be able to east what we have planted in the garden immediately.
Sue has no hesitation in pointing you in the direction of the Renaissance Organic Ready to Eat Range. The herbs are certified organic and are grown in WA according to strict guidelines set out by NASAA. In fact, many people grab a pot, harvest all the leaves off to use immediately and what is left can be planted in the garden. It will shoot away beautifully and in three weeks it is ready to pick again.
You can do the same thing with the range of organic repeat harvest vegies as well. The leaves are soft, sweet and tender and planting them out is really simple. If you are replanting existing vegetable beds, add some fertiliser like Dynamic Lifter and dig it. Sue also likes to use pea hay. This mulch is high in nutrients and as it breaks down feeds the soil.
Once the mulch is on you can start planting. Create little openings in the mulch, place the plant in the soil and the mulch piled around the small plants protects them from any extremes in temperatures and the added bonus is the slugs and snails hate going over the straw.
One of the lesser known fruiting trees is a quince. These small fruit trees are tough and so waterwise that when established will survive on no water. Gorgeous lime green foliage is a feature and when it comes to the fruit, it is awful if you went to eat it plucked fresh from the tree, but is superb when cooked.
Fruit trees in small areas always causes a problem, but there is the solution; espalier. It is the art of training fruit trees so they fruit to their best in a confined area. Set yourself a challenge to see how many fruit trees you can fit in your own backyard and you will be guaranteed of fresh healthy full of flavour fruit.
www.yates.com.au
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Dynamic Lifter Organic Plant Food:
Presenter: Sue McDougall
Growing your own fruit and vegetables is one the highlights of having a garden and one of the great pleasures that Sue gets to share with her kids. With a few cooler days the gardening is beckoning for you to start planting out your own choice of vegetables.
Herbs add so much flavour to the garden and fresh salads only take a matter of minutes to make. Now days we are so impatient and want to be able to east what we have planted in the garden immediately.
Sue has no hesitation in pointing you in the direction of the Renaissance Organic Ready to Eat Range. The herbs are certified organic and are grown in WA according to strict guidelines set out by NASAA. In fact, many people grab a pot, harvest all the leaves off to use immediately and what is left can be planted in the garden. It will shoot away beautifully and in three weeks it is ready to pick again.
You can do the same thing with the range of organic repeat harvest vegies as well. The leaves are soft, sweet and tender and planting them out is really simple. If you are replanting existing vegetable beds, add some fertiliser like Dynamic Lifter and dig it. Sue also likes to use pea hay. This mulch is high in nutrients and as it breaks down feeds the soil.
Once the mulch is on you can start planting. Create little openings in the mulch, place the plant in the soil and the mulch piled around the small plants protects them from any extremes in temperatures and the added bonus is the slugs and snails hate going over the straw.
One of the lesser known fruiting trees is a quince. These small fruit trees are tough and so waterwise that when established will survive on no water. Gorgeous lime green foliage is a feature and when it comes to the fruit, it is awful if you went to eat it plucked fresh from the tree, but is superb when cooked.
Fruit trees in small areas always causes a problem, but there is the solution; espalier. It is the art of training fruit trees so they fruit to their best in a confined area. Set yourself a challenge to see how many fruit trees you can fit in your own backyard and you will be guaranteed of fresh healthy full of flavour fruit.
www.yates.com.au
Featured Products
Dynamic Lifter Organic Plant Food:
- This is a versatile feed for all garden, potted and Australian native plants.
- Slow release nutrients improving structure and retention of the soil.
- It also encourages earthworms and is beneficial to soil micro-organisms
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