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 | | Welcome to the Gardening Australia Newsletter: 12/11/2009 | Coming Up This Week | | | Lolo's Garden - The Townsville Palmetum - Building a Worm Farm - Lisgar Gardens
Read more ABC 1: Saturday 14 November 2009, 6:30pm and Sunday 15 November 2009, 1:00pm
ABC 2: Monday 16 November 2009, 4:30pm | Watch a Story | | | Building a Worm Farm
14/11/2009
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Watch video | Find a Fact Sheet | | Lisgar Gardens
Presenter: Angus Stewart, 14/11/2009
Angus Stewart explores a public garden nestled in the cliffs of suburban Sydney, NSW
Read more | Browse the Video Archive | | There are three ways you can access Gardening Australia video: Streaming: Watch short clips of various segments online. Download: Manually download the complete episodes to your computer. Vodcast: Subscribe and have the complete episodes automatically downloaded to your computer. | Gardening Australia Forum | | Got a gardening question? Got an idea or tip? Why not go to our forum where you can talk to other keen gardeners, share ideas, help others or just share your passion for plants. And don't forget — members of the Gardening Australia team, including our presenters are Forum members too! So join the team to talk all things botanical. Join the conversation | Organic Gardener Essential Guide - Getting Started | | Organic Gardener has released its Essential Guide - Getting Started, a compilation of articles by some of Australia's top gardeners giving all the secrets of starting an organic vegie patch from scratch.
Inside this special edition Peter Cundall and Jerry Coleby-Williams tell how to keep pests and diseases at bay.
How to produce great compost, raise chooks, use mulch and grow herbs. Plus, there's a year-round planting guide and stories on three terrific organic gardens.
ABC Shop: Organic Gardener Essential Guide | Gardening Australia Magazine | | NEW ISSUE: DECEMBER 2009- WINNING GARDEN DESIGNS
- REFUGEES GO BUSH
- GARDEN TO TABLE
- RISING FROM THE ASHES
- PREPARE FOR SUMMER
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE - See a sustainable underground house built in the Adelaide Hills - Setting up a successful worm farm - Macadamias - Creating budget gifts for Christmas - All about the Christmas beetle | Plant of the Week | | AGAVE The type genus for the agave (Agavaceae) family is a group of some 225 species of fleshy-leafed perennials found from southern USA through the Caribbean and Central America to Venezuela and Colombia. The genus name comes from the Greek agavos, meaning stately or noble. Some species take decades to bloom, hence the common name of century plant, though many flower in 8 to 25 years in ideal conditions.
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