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Handy
Tips
We all have the desire to have the most beautiful garden on the block.
We go out buy plants, compost and whatever the salesman at the nursery
recommends. We then sweat our Weekends away digging, cleaning, pruning
or just looking good in the garden.
But some of us just are not able to actually make anything grow... Why?
According to Jeremy everyone has green fingers; we just need to learn how to unleash the magic.
Here are some Jeremy’s killer gardening tips! And this is just the tip of the iceberg of his knowledge.
Gardening
Articles
Gardening for Kids
Remember when we were kids and our folks would send us into the neighbour`s garden to snip a little shoot or two? Those long fingers more than often grow into green fingers...
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Year round colour
Planting Bulbs in your lawn is an inexpensive way to get colour every year at no extra cost. Bulbs suited for this purpose include most spring-flowering and a selection of autumn-flowering crocuses and colchicums...
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Hedging against the Cape dryness
Make this the year when you`re going to step outside the little tomato box in to which you`ve been packing all those now outdated ideas...
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A giving garden
The farm has come to town. Well not literally, but in essence, the farm culture has started a long walk out from within the farmlands and into our suburban gardens, bringing with it sustainability...
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Beginners basics – green finger facts
Starting out in the garden as a novice is more about your frame of mind than ‘what is the name of this’ or ‘where does that go’...
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Pruning
Watch your shrubs and observe their flowering season, this will be the best guide as to the proper time to prune. Some shrubs flower on growth made during the same season...
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Dressing your lawn
Leaving your lawn a little longer in summer to protect the lawns thatch and cutting a little lower in winter to get more sun to the roots are tips that really make a difference with our green mats...
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Shade Gardening
Trees are essential features of every garden, but special thought is needed for successful gardening in their shade. Degrees of shade vary greatly - a LOQUAT tree for instance, throws...
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News Letters
LIKE ELECTRICITY & PETROL, YOUR WATER WILL COST YOU MORE...
HERE IS WHY THESE THREE FACTS DONT BOTHER YOU...
50 - 80% of average rainfall in last two years
Funding shortfall of 56% need to pay for increased water infrastructure
1 millimeter of rain on a 1m2 surface yields 1 litre of water
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May Garden Notes:
A Garden in change
May has arrived with a cold embrace and its a reminder that summer truly is a thing of the past, till later in the year that is.
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‘The feeling of AWE, in decay’
Natures Blueprint Autumn/Winter Newsletter – March 2012
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FREE SH*T
`The single biggest problem in residential gardening is the lack of feeding` jeremy killian
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“Did you Know…” ‘lime fruit are not baby lemons!’
While both have a lot in common, they are two different fruits. Both are cold tender citrus, lemons are bigger and
yellow, while limes are green and much smaller. While difficult to distinguish from each other unless bearing ripe fruit, careful observation will reveal lime trees are smaller, 3 to 5m compared to lemons 3 to 6m height.
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