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Hedgewizard, I've just made the connection, congratulations on your blog/column in the ecologist, it is fantastic.

Thanks for all the advise guys. I have bought a new sage which I have planted with a generous amount of sand from my daughters sand pit and some sugarcane mulch in an attempt to get the soil more airated. The previous soil was very rich and lucious wich probibly got quite gluggy and wasn't 'free dra...

ooooops, thanks Stew, I'm fixing it now.

I'm growing zucchini and I've seen people growing potatoes in large bags. I've also got a lemon tree in a pot and I'm about to buy a grafted tree which I'll put in a pot. The tree will have 3 or 4 different stone fruits grafted onto it, so one tree 4 fruits! I can't wait. (unfortunately I'm in Aust ...

frozenthunderbolt, thanks for the reply, that could have been a great idea especially as the tree is too big for hand picking only there are some plants underneath it that I wouldn't be able to put newspaper on effectively. The bugs would fall to the ground and I wouldn't be able to collect them all...

Thanks for the replys guys, Still not sure what I'm going to do to fix the problem but I now have some ideas - though none for the tarragon yet so if anyone has any? The-fee-fairy: Bugger, my understanding was that sage was a perennial bush so I thought for once I could let one of my herbs flower wh...

Wouldn't you know it, two weeks after excitedly discovering that the random tree in my back yard is a mandarin, I find it infested with bronze orange bug and all the lovely flowers and buds have been eaten. I would love some advise for next year - this year is a write off I think. I have read about ...

I just can't seem to keep sage and rosemary alive, I thought I had with my sage this time, it was looking wonderfully bushy and had lots og lovely flowers, I restrained from eating any to give it a chance to establish and them int he space of about a week it has keeled over and almost died. http://l...

Hey there, I'm in Petersham Nev, inner city, small blocks, Oh Well. Lots of fabulous organic markets and we are just down the road from the bower and reverse garbage, my 2 favourite places in the city! Frozenthunderbolt, would be nice if we had gotten interested seriously in solar decades ago but oh...

Hi everyone, This site is an amazing treasure trove of a find and I am loving exploring it for ideas and hints. I am a student, living in Sydney with my partner and 18 month old daughter. I have always been a bit of a green concious person but since having Milly I have been determined that she would...