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Its like someone has flicked a switch and all of a sudden warm weather, blossoms daffodils and magnolias bamboozled us with their colour and ability to make us sneeze, uncontrollably for minutes at a time..
I am loving the warmth and being able to wear a tea shirt and skirt and go for bike rides without [...]

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Well I had a few issues awhile back i consulted the www about, and the first solutions I came across “seem” to be working. Yay!
First it was the aphid infestation:

I applied a recipe of:
1/2 litre of water,
tsp of crushed chillie
1/2 tsp of dish detergent
Grapeseed oil
Strained so the crushed chillie bits didn’t clog up sprayer..
And [...]

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After reading “You Grow Girl” (more like taking it everywhere and just pulling it out for inspiration every evening for the last month) I have decided to start using the seeds my plants create to be used for next years veges. I wanted to find other reading on this, but decided that I should just [...]

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Christchurch has this amazing system to deal with peoples trash. ONE part of it is as you go to “the tip” with your trailer load of “rubbish” you go through/past a recycling area. This recycling area has the usual bottles and paper, they also have a big shed to off load anything that is re-usable; [...]

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I got this book out from the library in the weekend:

It has some wonderful ideas and funny writing.  In it mentioned the online gardening community www.yougrowgirl.com I am just about to start exploring it.
But as some of you know I am addicted to online communites. However I don’t tend to spend lots of time [...]

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I was introduced to the Artichoke by a past boy friends mother. We sat around a huge wooden table with fresh vege and meat pilled into the middle. One of the white ceramic bowls was filled with some big flower looking things. No-one was surprised by this (it looked a little odd to me) but [...]

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