We chatted with The Plant People about their boutique plant delivery company: Tell us about The Plant People? We are a family-owned business that has been in the nursery and plant industry for over ten years. As backyards get smaller and high-rises get taller we saw the need to bring the outside right to your … [Read more...] about Interview with The Plant People
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How to Create Good Compost for your Soil
This weekend past, we topped up the vegetable. We wanted to use a mixture of different organic matter to add texture, substance and a range of nutrients to the soil. We ended up using coir, cow manure, and Dynamic Lifter. For the top layer of the vegetable bed, we added sugar cane mulch. It isn’t particularly high in nutrients but it helps to reduce weeds and moisture loss and … [Read more...] about How to Create Good Compost for your Soil
The Botanist’s Daughter by Kayte Nunn – Book Review
The Botanist’s Daughter by Kayte Nunn involved painstaking research into 19th century Cornwall and Chile and was inspired by real-life, intrepid, female explorers of that era. It is 1886 in Cornwall, England, and Elizabeth’s father, John Trebithick, the adventurer, expert botanist and plant collector, has recently died. Elizabeth decides to fulfill her father’s ambition to … [Read more...] about The Botanist’s Daughter by Kayte Nunn – Book Review
The Essential List of Gardening charts for Australia
To get motivated and organised in the vegetable patch it helps to have a gardening chart. You might call these growing guides or calendars. Start your vegetable patch with good intentions and hopefully you will be blessed with an abundance of yummy fresh organic produce. The Diggers Club The Diggers Club Sow What When poster - This full-colour poster displays over 60 … [Read more...] about The Essential List of Gardening charts for Australia
Getting started growing Bananas in Queensland
Here is some of the information I discovered while researching how to go about growing bananas in your backyard for Brisbane and Queensland. Bananas require full sunlight for most of the day. They do best is a sheltered area where the roots will not become flooded. The best time to plant them is from September to mid-December. Bananas require generous amounts of plant nutrients … [Read more...] about Getting started growing Bananas in Queensland