Tims Gardening Column
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Snakes in the garden! - Nov 19, 2011
Dear gardening friends I noticed my recycling bin was full yesterday so I decided to take it out to the street. My bins are just outside the backdoor so they are nice and handy. I grabbed the handles of the bin and spun it around. As I did this I noticed this black thing on the concrete where the bin had just been. My brain realized ...
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Time to prune! - Nov 11, 2011
Dear gardening friends We have been busy at the nursery this week pruning plants. When you get hot weather and water plants just seem to triple in size. Ryan has been busy pruning roses and spacing them further apart. This allows the sun and air into the plants and helps to prevent black spot. You can't move your roses at home so if t...
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Smell the perfume - Nov 11, 2011
Dear gardening friends I hope you won some money on the cup. Noreen had some luck with one of those mystery bets but the rest of us lost our money. We had a few injuries here last week. Poor Simon nearly killed himself mopping the kitchen floor. He was mopping so vigorously the handle on the mop snapped and he went head first ...
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Stop and smell the roses - Oct 25, 2011
Dear gardening friends It’s great to see some rain falling because the lawn and garden was starting to get dry. I actually treated all my pot plants with Wettasoil on the weekend because I noticed the water was just running out the bottom. When it gets dry the potting mix becomes hydrophobic and so it just repels the water. This rain ...
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Mortisha gets her wish - Oct 21, 2011
Dear gardening friends Beautiful sunny days this week so everybody seems to be gardening again. We have had lots of people coming in wondering if it is too late to spray for bindii. Yes it is because the seeds have already set so your poor dog will be doing it tough all summer long. It is still worth spraying the clover though...