9 Jan 2016

Gardening: Organic gardening

From The Weekend , 9:06 am on 9 January 2016

Dell McLeod and Simon Johnston from Dunedin are behind Organic Veg/Edible Gardening Advice - Aotearoa, New Zealand. Dell set it up a year ago and since then it has attracted hundreds of people from around New Zealand, and even some in Australia who want to share ideas and stories about organic gardening.

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Jilli's garden

Jilli's radishes

Annelies' black currants

Ailing cucumber being treated with compost and sheep manure

Beans galore!

Agria dill broad beans borage Isabella's grandad's Maori potatoes

Annelies' cucumbers

Companion planting - tomatoes

Isabella's garlic

Shellee's blueberries

Kim's garden

Isabella's red onion harvest

Scarlett runners Borlotti beans Cos and Buttercrunch lettuces - Isabella

Scarlett Runner beans Agria. Bee friendly flowers - Isabella

Yellow pear tomatoes - Isabella

Tomato 'Tigerella' - Isabella

Raised gardens

Peas, red frilled lettuce, four kinds of radishes, three kinds of carrots, sugar beet, coriander bartowich parsley a camo ginger bear and zucchini

Simon Johnston's greenhouse interior

Part of Simon Johnston's garden

Zuccini

Shellee's rock melon

Shellee's beetroot

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