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Your trees shading out the greenery on the ground and large trees in general sounds much like my place. I also have that size hansa but find it so noisy I rarely use it. I'd use the dead pine needles as weed preventative elsewhere in my garden too.

Oh Vicky, I didn't think about sugar cane! I even grow it myself for a sweet treat but didn't think to include it in my sweet list in the previous post. I watched those tv shows. Certainly was an eye opener and shock for the participants, particularly in the early days when they were setting...

Sounds to me like its time you got a milking goat! You must surely have enough browse from your garden prunings to keep one in good nick. Then you would have milk, cheese, yoghurt from the get-go. Along with another source of animal manure for your compost. Cos on the diet you have so far shown...

When the seed company writes that on their pack they are using commercial growing timings to provide that info. It is just general advice. Commercial plants tend to set most flowers simultaneously so the crop can be harvested on the same day.

Such a pity you aren't near me. My horses go through 20kg carrots every 3weeks at this time of year. ;)

Fruit fly traps, foliar feed trace elements for added vitality, a fresh application of fertilizer around the base of the tree. All the above things will help. Your tree has probably simply run out of soil nutrition so it is now not as healthy as it was in it's first few years of life. If you...

Vicky, your avatar says you live in a temperate area. If you need mulch, you should grow it. What sort of mulch do you need? If it is brown or green stuff for compost try cannas which grow fast and easily hacked down on a regular basis before they flower. Find an old house being demolished...

The newer varieties of finger limes that are coloured are all created in labs or from crossbreeding. So starting from seed won't help. Maybe you will fluke a pale version from seed if you have 7yrs to wait for the fruit. If you want a certain colour, buy the plant already established that will...

Powdery Mildew is a fungal disease that appears like baby powder sprinkled over the upper sides of the mature leaves of zucchini, squash, cucumber, pumpkin, melon leaves. The best organic spray is milk at 9parts water 1part full cream milk. Has to be animal milk and preferably full cream so it...

Paul, next time you are coming up this way let me know here because I love to have a good old natter with garden folks. Would have been nice if that rain had come over my way though!

Don't give it too much water. Put it in a shady place to recover. Get it into the ground asap then put strong stakes around and hang light shade cloth over. The pale leaves are the new foliage and they will hang naturally, but it does look a bit off in anycase. The roots need to be kept cool too.

Yes, I think they look like snail or slug eggs! Squish every one! If you have chooks they should like to eat them.

I wrote the above reply last week and well by now you will have experienced the results of the rain you had! Check your ants to see how they are getting on. Do they head back down into the ground or stay up in the bark?

Looks like it would be a nice tree to have so you could just pick some berries as you went by. What I read about it at the Australian Tropical Fruits Nursery was that it is slow growing so suits a dwarfing situation.

These people use a lot of used grinds. I wouldn't be wasting good coffee beans on plants until I'd drunk the cuppa! I recently finished a kilo pack of cryovac'd beans from New Guinea that were 30yrs old. So unless your beans haven't been stored very well, they should be good to go. To use them...

Hi there Master boing. Welcome. I'm wondering exactly where Eaton is. Is it Eaton West, Qld; or Eaton, West Australia?

OH Wow! Hazelnuts! Are they the ones that are seeded with truffle spores?

When my elderly Mother had her's set up, the guy from Birdies placed seconds pavers around the oval shape to sit the form on. He got the chipped or cracked 300x300mm pavers from landscape yards and hardware stores for almost nothing. He first dug away the lawn, laid a layer of gravel as I see in...

I see 'evil cousin' has got a reddish heart colour at the centre of the leaf and a different style of emerging from the root. also, the flower is a different colour. Oca flower is yellow. I'll hunt around online because what I have growing here might be the right one. re things getting called...

I love quaint little houses from that period, particularly ones with a great back story like yours. I write short story fiction so I'll write a story about it if I may. In Australia, they were called workers cottages or row houses and often were set in pairs sharing a common wall. I think they...