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 | | Welcome to the Gardening Australia Newsletter: 26/09/2014 | Coming Up This Week | | | A Labour of Love - Peg's Passion - The Patch: Lean Times - Booderee Botanic Gardens - Trees of Life
Read more ABC TV: Saturday 27 September 2014, 6:30pm and Sunday 28 September 2014, 1:00pm | Watch a Story | | | Peg's Passion
27/09/2014
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Watch video | Find a Fact Sheet | | Booderee Botanic Gardens
Presenter: Clarence Slockee, 27/09/2014
Clarence visits Australia's only indigenous-owned and managed botanic garden and national park on New South Wales' south coast
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. | Weekly Gardening Action Plan | | Spring brings pest challenges to gardeners around the country. Here's how to deal with some of them:
Tropical Zone
Integrated Pest Management is a scientific but natural way of controlling pests anywhere in the country: Working in Harmony Fact Sheet Subtropical Zone
Fruit fly are starting to appear in many gardens and orchards as the weather warms. The first step is to hang out some home-made baits so you can monitor their numbers before taking the next steps: Fruit Fly Fact Sheet Temperate Zone
Many viewers are starting to report caterpillar problems with their tomatoes - here's an organic method for dealing with grubs and other pests on all your vegies: Caterpillar Control Fact Sheet Arid Zone
Mealybugs are starting to appear on arid-land citrus trees and can be controlled with home-made horticultural oil: Horticultural Oil Fact Sheet Cool Zone
Planting to attract both beneficial insects and plant pollinators will help you manage garden pests without the need to spray: Animals in the Garden Fact Sheet
And if you want some ideas of what to plant in the vegie patch, don't forget to visit The Vegie Guide or Download the App | Competition Closes Wednesday Sept 30th! | | WIN A GARDEN MAKEOVER! Do you dream of turning your urban back (or front) yard into a sustainable, edible paradise but don't know where to start? Well dream no more.
'Patch from Scratch' is ABC Organic Gardener Magazines' biggest-ever gardening competition and will see one lucky reader win a complete garden transformation.
This fantastic prize includes consultation, design and plans for a permaculture garden along with raised garden beds, seedlings, seeds, fruit trees and organic soil, plus worm farm, hens, water tank and more!
The competition closes next Wednesday, 30th September 2014, so get your entries in now!
For more information and details on how to enter, visit the Organic Gardener Website | | |
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