…ional level. 4. Actively promote composting, with a wide range of composting bins and other products. 5. Introducing products made from recycled material into our product range, eg. Basket liners from…
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Backyard Chooks
…the chooks. They make wonderful composters I still use a compost heap but it doesn’t get fed nearly as much as the chooks. Fruit and vege peelings and weeds get thrown into their run. If they don’t li…
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Screening Ideas
…g up, adding a second story is becoming more common. Most people do not want to be reminded of the increasing proximity of their neighbours. They want to screen them out. Choosing a Suitable Screen The…
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…the scion). Grafted plants are becoming far more common in garden centres and nurseries, and there are a number of reasons for this. These include: Dwarfing – A number of plants sold at the nursery are…
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…f your summer vegies if they are coming to the end of their useful life. These can be composted if you chop up the stalky parts first (a sharp spade is good) but avoid adding plant matter that might ha…
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…n thorny material and graft onto commercial root stock (commonly the trifoliate rootstock). ‘Pink Ice’: Slightly bitter – think of grapefruit – wonderful as a garnish in drinks or seafood ‘Pink Champag…
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…Supplies enquiries to yard@baag.com.au. We deliver all over Melbourne! We can deliver our bulk sand, soil, mulch, compost and stone to your site in most areas of Metro Melbourne. Our fleet of trucks a…
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…oted fruit trees. There are many common and uncommon varieties of apples and pears, cherries and apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums, figs, mulberries etc – in fact, a veritable cornucopia of fruit tr…
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…few small fruit) Fruit trees are commonly pruned as a central leader or vase shape. The central leader: form is commonly used on apples and pears, though these can also be pruned as a vase shape. The v…
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…d for years, the soil may have become hydrophobic (repels water). There are several commercially available products which can be watered in or dug in to solve this problem. If the problem is severe, ex…
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…taff. What else is BAAG doing to combat the threat of environmental weeds? Having local council lists available and displayed within the nursery of Common Garden Plants that are Environmental Weeds in…
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…us amount of flexibility when it comes to planting style and plant choice, and can look absolutely fantastic when complete. Consider planting no traffic species in an area where lawn may have been diff…
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…connect and interact. Starting a community garden or joining an existing one is an opportunity to make new friends, swap knowledge and information, and enjoy other like-minded people’s company. Not to…
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…e soil. This extra nitrogen will compensate for any nitrogen being taken up by the gradual decomposition of the mulch. 6. Lay your mulch thickly (7-8cm deep), keeping the area directly around plants fr…
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