Organic Gardening Tips

Diatomaceous Earth in Your Garden

Diatomaceous Earth in Your Garden

Nicki Mckay

As gardeners, we are always on the lookout for natural ways to nurture our plants and keep our gardens thriving. Enter diatomaceous earth (DE), a hidden gem with a multitude...

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Diatomaceous Earth in Your Garden

Nicki Mckay

As gardeners, we are always on the lookout for natural ways to nurture our plants and keep our gardens thriving. Enter diatomaceous earth (DE), a hidden gem with a multitude...

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Tomato Diseases and Pests in Subtropical Australia

Tomato Diseases and Pests in Subtropical Australia

Nicki Mckay

Tomatoes are a beloved garden staple, but cultivating them in subtropical Australia can pose some unique challenges. The warm, humid climate can be a breeding ground for various tomato diseases...

Tomato Diseases and Pests in Subtropical Australia

Nicki Mckay

Tomatoes are a beloved garden staple, but cultivating them in subtropical Australia can pose some unique challenges. The warm, humid climate can be a breeding ground for various tomato diseases...

Protecting your Vegetable Garden From Australian Bush Turkeys

Protecting Your Vegetable Garden from Australia...

Nicki Mckay

Australia is home to a wide array of unique and sometimes challenging wildlife, and one such character is the Australian bush turkey. Known for their curious and often disruptive behaviour,...

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Protecting Your Vegetable Garden from Australia...

Nicki Mckay

Australia is home to a wide array of unique and sometimes challenging wildlife, and one such character is the Australian bush turkey. Known for their curious and often disruptive behaviour,...

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Common Subtropical Pests

Common Pests in the Subtropical Summer Garden

Nicki Mckay

Garden pests eating your lovingly cared for plants can be heartbreaking. There are loads about here in the subtropics that can take over quite quickly if you’re not on the...

Common Pests in the Subtropical Summer Garden

Nicki Mckay

Garden pests eating your lovingly cared for plants can be heartbreaking. There are loads about here in the subtropics that can take over quite quickly if you’re not on the...

How to manage QLD Fruit Fly

How to manage QLD Fruit Fly in your veggie patch

Nicki Mckay

QLD Fruit fly is a devastating pest for us here in the subtropics. It can make vegetable gardening during the warmer months prohibitive if they are out of control. We...

How to manage QLD Fruit Fly in your veggie patch

Nicki Mckay

QLD Fruit fly is a devastating pest for us here in the subtropics. It can make vegetable gardening during the warmer months prohibitive if they are out of control. We...

Pest Strategies for Organic Gardeners

Pest Strategies for Organic Gardeners

Nicki Mckay

Love growing your own food but hate constantly dealing with pests? No gardens are immune to problems, but we have taken on a wholistic approach in our garden which has...

Pest Strategies for Organic Gardeners

Nicki Mckay

Love growing your own food but hate constantly dealing with pests? No gardens are immune to problems, but we have taken on a wholistic approach in our garden which has...

Tomato crop after too much rain

Our tomato crop after too much rain

Nicki Mckay

In the last 3 months we've received an excessive amount of rain, and with that our tomato season has suffered as a bit of a consequence. In February we received...

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Our tomato crop after too much rain

Nicki Mckay

In the last 3 months we've received an excessive amount of rain, and with that our tomato season has suffered as a bit of a consequence. In February we received...

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Excess Rain in the Garden

Dealing with excess rain in the Veggie Patch

Nicki Mckay

Tips for dealing with too much rainfall in your vegetable garden.

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Dealing with excess rain in the Veggie Patch

Nicki Mckay

Tips for dealing with too much rainfall in your vegetable garden.

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Managing Powdery Mildew in the subtropics

Managing Powdery Mildew

Nicki Mckay

Powdery mildew can be devastating to many crops and it is highly infectious so can spread quickly in your garden if you don’t get control of it. It’s not a...

Managing Powdery Mildew

Nicki Mckay

Powdery mildew can be devastating to many crops and it is highly infectious so can spread quickly in your garden if you don’t get control of it. It’s not a...

How to get rid of root knot nematodes from your veggie patch

How to get rid of root knot nematodes from your...

Nicki Mckay

Root knot nematodes or eel worms are those hidden annoyances that you don't really know that you've got them until it's too late. Root knot nematodes are a microscopic parasite...

How to get rid of root knot nematodes from your...

Nicki Mckay

Root knot nematodes or eel worms are those hidden annoyances that you don't really know that you've got them until it's too late. Root knot nematodes are a microscopic parasite...

Aphids, how to manage aphids in the garden organically

Aphids, how to manage aphids in the garden orga...

Nicki Mckay

The aphids were pretty insane this year. I know a lot of people had similar issues, and I know the reason I had them was lack of planning and overall...

Aphids, how to manage aphids in the garden orga...

Nicki Mckay

The aphids were pretty insane this year. I know a lot of people had similar issues, and I know the reason I had them was lack of planning and overall...

Why are your zucchini rotting and not growing

Why are your Zucchini rotting

Nicki Mckay

Do you have a problem with your zucchini (or squash or pumpkin or cucumbers) being stunted and not progressing past the size of your thumb?Perhaps they are getting to a...

Why are your Zucchini rotting

Nicki Mckay

Do you have a problem with your zucchini (or squash or pumpkin or cucumbers) being stunted and not progressing past the size of your thumb?Perhaps they are getting to a...

QLD Fruit fly

Dealing with Fruit Fly in the veggie patch

Nicki Mckay

Growing food is fast becoming a lost art. It’s feared, it’s unknown, it’s challenging, it’s rebellious. But it doesn’t have to be hard. Join me in the Love of Dirt...

Dealing with Fruit Fly in the veggie patch

Nicki Mckay

Growing food is fast becoming a lost art. It’s feared, it’s unknown, it’s challenging, it’s rebellious. But it doesn’t have to be hard. Join me in the Love of Dirt...

Lessons from an entomologist

Lessons from an entomologist

Nicki Mckay

Growing food is fast becoming a lost art. It’s feared, it’s unknown, it’s challenging, it’s rebellious. But it doesn’t have to be hard. Join me in the Love of Dirt...

Lessons from an entomologist

Nicki Mckay

Growing food is fast becoming a lost art. It’s feared, it’s unknown, it’s challenging, it’s rebellious. But it doesn’t have to be hard. Join me in the Love of Dirt...

Tomato Pest - Tomato Russet Mite

Tomato Pest - Tomato Russet Mite

Nicki Mckay

So this week I learnt all about a new tomato pest. Tomatoes are one of my biggest teachers here in this sub tropical climate of ours. I've experienced varying degrees...

Tomato Pest - Tomato Russet Mite

Nicki Mckay

So this week I learnt all about a new tomato pest. Tomatoes are one of my biggest teachers here in this sub tropical climate of ours. I've experienced varying degrees...

Tomato fruit rotting at the bottom

Tomatoes rotting at their ends? Could be blosso...

Nicki Mckay

Ever find your tomatoes are growing but seem to be rotting from the bottom up. If it's not fruit fly, you might have a case of blossom end rot. The...

Tomatoes rotting at their ends? Could be blosso...

Nicki Mckay

Ever find your tomatoes are growing but seem to be rotting from the bottom up. If it's not fruit fly, you might have a case of blossom end rot. The...