9 Jan 2016

Gardening: Organic gardening

From Summer Weekends, 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.

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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