Next on: Tonight 7.30pm, Rpt Sunday 1.30pm on ABC + iview |
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| | | | | Jane explores the plants behind our favourite Easter treats; Costa meets a chook expert to find out the best breeds for every situation; Tino starts preparing to plant a market garden and Millie learns all about making apple cider using a range of apple varieties. | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | Tonight 7.30pm on ABC + iview | | | | Tino and his family are hard at work laying the foundations of on their biggest patch yet - a large-scale market garden at his home | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | Fact Sheet | | | | Millie drops in on a family cider distillery growing 40 different traditional apple varieties | | | | | | |
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| | | | Gardening Australia Weekly QuizRoughly, how many trees are there on earth? A) 3 trillion
B) 600 million
C) 8 trillion See next week's newsletter for the answer!
Answer to last week's quiz question:
Q) How many flowers do you need to harvest to get one kilo of saffron?
A) c - Around 220,000 | | |
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| | | | | Tropical Climate Zone Broccoli Cauliflower Garlic Water ChestnutSubtropical Climate Zone Beetroot Carrots Kale/Collards SpinacArid Climate Zone Cabbage Chives Lettuce OnionWarm Temperate Climate Zone Broad beans Endive Leeks OreganoCool Temperature Climate Zone Chicory Florence fennel Mustard greens Turnips/Swedes | | |
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| | | | | COOL As our thoughts turn to eggs, make sure you save those eggshells! Grind them up for compost or place them around your brassicas to deter cabbage white butterfly. Perennial sages and salvias will benefit from a haircut this weekend. Give them a good chop, almost to the ground – you’ll see new growth coming away from the centre of the plants in no time With Autumn leaves falling, get out the rake and tidy these guys up. Running a mower over the top of raked leaves chops them up nice and fine – perfect to plump up your compost!TEMPERATE Don’t be a bunny! Get a cracking crop of carrots sown this weekend in the garden. Sow seed into soft, fluffy soil in a nice sunny spot, and keep them moist while they germinate Divide clumping native plants like kangaroo paws, dianellas and lomandras by cutting into sections with a sharp spade, leaving around 5 shoots per cutting. Pot up in a protected spot. Start harvesting autumn raspberries, which should keep cropping right through until winter. If other critters are getting to the fruit before you are, some taut, well-installed netting should keep your crop safe. SUBTROPICAL Share some succulent cuttings with friends! Take a small stem cutting or leaf, allow to dry for a couple of days and pop into free-draining potting mix – it’s that easy! If you’re planting on some sensational spring colour, it’s time to get your cold-loving bulbs into the fridge! Hyacinths, tulips and daffodils should be chilled now until planting time in winter Flowering now are the Easter Daisies, tough perennials that will provide colour for months. Whites, blues, pinks and purples, these old-fashioned Asters are stunners, and the bees love them!TROPICAL If you’ve got a sweet tooth, try growing Stevia. Known as the sugar herb, this tropical perennial is perfect for pots, and the leaves used as a sugar substitute. Improve a tired vegie bed with a DIY green manure mix using old, out of date seeds sown thickly. You’ll be surprised what grows – just make sure you till them into the ground before they flower. Indoors or out, Hoyas are a tropical must have. These wonderful waxflowers are tough, attractive, evergreen climbers, and put on bunches of beaut blooms from spring through autumn.ARID Get stuck into Autumn fertilising. Give trees, shrubs and lawns some organic pelletised fertiliser, and feed the last of the summer vegies with a lovely liquid potash. A favoured food of bilbies are the bulbs of the bush onion (Cyperus bulbosus). A great addition to gardens, these attractive perennial native grasses are fab in a sandy soil and produce showy seed heads. If you’ve got spare space in your patch, sow some mustard seeds. These fast-growing foliage plants will reward you with lovely leaves in as little as three weeks. Go on, spice up your life! | | |
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