Stressing Tomato Plants To Encourage Early Fruiting Here in the Rat (Ballarat) the food gardening Holy Grail is to get ripe tomatoes by Christmas. Yet food gardeners often tell me that they Read More » October 13, 2020 No Comments
Potting Up Tomato Plants While most of the seedlings I grow are planted straight into the ground sometimes I pot them up into pots before planting them out as Read More » October 13, 2020 No Comments
Fertilsing Vegetable Beds How much fertiliser should be added to a vegetable bed depends on three things: THE VARIETY OF VEGETABLE BEING GROWN THE TYPE AND STRENGTH OF Read More » July 1, 2020 No Comments
Growing Corn CHARACTERISTICS AND REQUIREMENTS Large plant that needs plenty of space if it is to grow decent sized ears. Requires a rich well drained soil with Read More » June 30, 2020 No Comments
Planting Corn In A Raised Bed The traditional distances for planting corn vary from 20 to 25 cm apart with 60 to 100 cm between rows. However, these distances do not Read More » July 1, 2020 No Comments