How To Grow Better And Bigger Tomatoes With Worm Juice?
For the 30 years I’ve been growing vegetables tomatoes have always had pride of place in my garden as I enjoy growing them and love eating them. As mentioned in a previous post, this season I have...
View ArticleTomatoes High On Worm Juice
It’s been almost six weeks since I planted my main crop of my tomatoes and now that the warm summer weather has finally arrived they’re racing away. My post of the 5th November “How to grow bigger and...
View ArticleTomatoes High on Worm Juice – Part 2
Now that the Christmas and New Year’s festivities are over I thought it time to see how my two trial tomatoes are progressing. Since my post of the 18th of December all the tomatoes excluding the one...
View ArticleReturn Of The Bees
Do you ever wonder where all the bees have gone? It’ s no easy task to find bees whereas not many years back they were everywhere plying their all important trade. I can remember many an occasion when...
View ArticleTomatoes High On Worm Juice – Part 3
Its been about 14 weeks now since I planted my first tomatoes and at last, they are ripening in reasonable numbers. I picked the first of the tomatoes about 3 weeks ago but they didn’t compare to...
View ArticleLetter To NZ Gardener Magazine
When I wrote to the NZ Gardener recently to make them aware of my bumper crop of tomatoes I certainly didn’t expect my letter to be made into a full page feature. You could say I almost “fell off my...
View ArticleHow To Save Tomato Seeds
In spite of the slow start to spring it’s been a great season for growing tomatoes and to ensure bumper crops again next season I’ve been setting aside some of the choicest tomatoes for seeds. Tomato...
View ArticleSpring Means It’s Time To Get Growing
Daylight saving started last Sunday so now I have an extra hour at the end of each day to get our vegetable garden knocked into shape. The winter has been long and very wet but I’m hoping that’s all...
View ArticleGrow Tomatoes That Will Turn Your Family And Friends Aunt Ruby’s German Green...
Every year about this time people ask these questions of me, “Rodney why do you grow so many tomatoes and how do you achieve such great results … what are you going to do with them all ?” I must admit...
View ArticleHow To Get The Most From Mulch
Last winter our veggie garden became rather wet and claggy so this year I decided to spread a layer of mulch over it to help free up the soil and make it easier to maintain. I should have done this...
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