Tims Articles
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Vegetables can kill you too! - Mar 10, 2010
We encourage our children to eat vegetables to stay healthy but a safe food campaigner in N.Z has found that celery had 21 pesticide residues. Other fruit and vegetables found to be on the "dirty dozen" list included cucumber, nectarines, lettuce, apricots, tomatoes, grapes and pears. Pesticide residues can be found in fruit and veget...
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Smell that Grass! - Feb 8, 2010
Every afternoon as I drive down my street I can here the sound of lawn mowers. I can also smell that fresh cut grass. Lawns have done it tough since the drought started in 2003 and most people gave up on the “perfect lawn dream”. But with the rain, lawns come back so quickly and with a bit of added fertiliser now, and a lot of lawn mowing, th...
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Beans beat boredom? - Dec 15, 2009
During the Christmas break the kids will get bored pretty quickly if you don't keep them busy. Why don't you get them to help you build a vegetable garden? Scientists have discovered the easiest way to get children to eat vegetables is to teach them how to grow them. Scientists have also discovered if children eat more vegetables they have le...
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It's time to grow Mangoes! - Nov 20, 2009
You might think the Mangoes you buy in the shop taste sweet but just like tomatoes, home grown taste so much sweeter. In Queensland Mango trees grow up to 20 metres high but in the Macarthur area you will be lucky if it grows 5 metres high in 10 years. If you have a hot sunny position that is protected from frost then you can grow you...
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Be cool, green and happy! - Nov 11, 2009
I think it’s funny that people will go to any length to park their car in the shade on a hot day. The shady spot is the most prized possession in the work car park too. It’s commonsense that your car will be cooler if you park it in the shade. Why then do many of these same people refuse to plant any shade trees around their own house...