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Hi Chris, yes we love photos, even if you are just starting out with your first garden bed.

Hi Steve, sounds like your plants are either getting too much nitrogen to prevent flowers developing or your soil needs potassium or both. Add a good bit of fertilizer at the beginning including potassium and lime to balance your fish poo water from your fish pond. Then every two weeks...

I meant full cream milk, not cream! That's milk with 3% cream in it.

No need to kill the peas. Just add lime and scuffle it into the soil around them. In a few days you will see their new leaves grow all 'proper and dark green'. The current leaves will continue to yellow until they drop off but the new leaves will be like a new plant. It's good that the old...

I wrote about it here only a week or so back because it is time to spray https://www.selfsufficientculture.com/threads/powdery-mildew-time-to-spray.2446/

Just remember the Panama Berry will grow into a huge spreading tree quite quickly. MIne is only 14mths old I think and already 4m tall and 4m wide and its in poor soil with little water. The vanilla vine needs deep shade and heaps of humidity that never gets blown away. That's why its currently...

Yes, finally the ads seem to be gone. I solved the issue by staying away but its good to be back without ads. :whistles:

They certainly need a good liming! The soil would have benefited from garden lime application at the rate of a double handful per square metre/yard 2wks before you planted the seedlings.

Hi there Mel, welcome. re your cantaloupe and watermelon vines, spray them with the 10%milk mix to prevent all those fungal nasties taking hold on the leaves after this rain and a few sunny interludes. Make sure you get under every leaf.

Oh, I thought it was just my shortcut. Thanks for letting me know I'm not the only one having trouble with the site. Mark is most likely working on it. Interesting re the dragons. I try to have suitable food for them growing/ alive in the wilds of my horse paddocks. I'll have to think how I can...

Use soluble or foliar fertilizer if you can so the plant gets it asap. Don't rely on the roots to be healthy enough to uptake fertilizer.

Tamara said "I get a divine sugarless cup of coffee in the morning in the comfort of my pyjamas without leaving home" YES! that is the way to have coffee! Sitting on one's own verandah watching the little birds visit my garden. All these people now working from home should finally be able to...

Hi Tim and wife/family. We look forward to seeing your garden photos. My place is a bit south of Gympie too.

Have you had your soil tested or the manure? Or do you know for a fact that where you get your fresh cow manure from they use it on their pastures? I ask all these questions because if you are simply going by plant signs and symptoms, it could be other things causing issues as well. I'm not...

Things I noticed were that the surrounding soil looks very acid due to all those weeds growing. So the plant might be showing some acidity issues like calcium deficiency. I can't see any nitrogen deficiency in the plant you've shown us. Bananas like neutral pH or slightly acid 5.5 -6.5 pH range...

Yes re the stevia patch. Next time you do this experiment Mark, think ahead and get that stevia patch firing first! ........And a milking goat or some white nuts for milk! or rice or sunflower seeds I think can be used. There's no reason why you couldn't grow a container or 3 of rice (not the...

What would I use on snails? Well, I'd gather them all up and drop into a 20lt drum with good lid that has 2-4lt of bran in the bottom. After 3days in there maybe having to change it daily depending on the numbers of snails, and the snails having been fully purged, I'd take them out and wash...

Elin you intimated you added a photo yet I see none. Could you elaborate regarding your question about using cow manure, please?

You need to cut it down. Cut it off on the truck of the tree at your shoulder height no higher. Force the new shoots that grow from the old main stem to bend over back towards the ground. Don't let it run up trees. It's just a waste. That part that's growing up in the branches will continue to...

It might depend on how much added sugar there was in that OJ. They say they don't add extra sugar but they sure add a lot to bring the OJ up to the level equal to natural juice full of overripe sugars.