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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Category: Gardening techniques

Vegetative propagation for everyone
Gardening techniques

Vegetative propagation for everyone

Frank Tozer

When you really get into planting the garden you soon realize you can never have enough plants and one way to radically increase the number of plants in your garden … Read More

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Making seedling flats
Gardening techniques

Making seedling flats

Frank Tozer

These shallow wooden boxes are the traditional seed sowing containers and despite the introduction of some excellent alternatives they continue to be popular. This is because they are versatile, easy … Read More

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Soil blocks, making and using
Gardening techniques

Soil blocks, making and using

Frank Tozer

Soil blocks are small compressed blocks of special sowing mix (this is not actually soil) used for starting seeds. They are fairly new in this country, but have been used … Read More

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Worm bins for kitchen waste
Gardening techniques

Worm bins for kitchen waste

Frank Tozer

Many gardeners think of “fertilizers” as something they buy, while “waste” is something to be disposed of (via the ‘green waste’ bin.) This demonstrates how far we have all been … Read More

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Gardening techniques

Crop planning, when to plant

Frank Tozer

After you have decided what to plant, you then have to determine when to plant it. If you are to grow a crop with the least difficulty and the best … Read More

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Crop planning, where to plant

Frank Tozer

Once you know how many square feet of each crop you need, you have to decide what crop goes where. It may help to draw a diagram of all of … Read More

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Gardening techniques

Crop planning, what to plant

Frank Tozer

If your garden is to realize its full potential for productivity you will need to get organized, so you know what to plant, when it should be done and where … Read More

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Climate
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Climate

Frank Tozer

Gardening brings you into close personal contact with nature in all of her different guises and one of the most important aspects of nature that you have to deal with … Read More

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Crop spacing
Gardening techniques

Crop spacing

Frank Tozer

It is important that plants are spaced the right distance apart. Too far apart and space is wasted, too close together and they compete with each other. Every garden book … Read More

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Comfrey
Useful plants

Comfrey

Frank Tozer

Symphytum officinalis Boraginaceae This persistent European plant can be found in gardens across the North America and often occurs as an escape from  cultivation. This is fortunate because Comfrey is … Read More

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