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Planting Tips
Prepare your vegie garden for the
warmer growing season.
We've added compost and Searles 5 in 1® Plus to the
soil - raked in.
If you buy new soil make sure you test the pH before you plant your seedlings.
pH testing kits will last you for years.
The pH level should be around 6.5-7 for most vegies to thrive.
After this, you need to mulch the top of the soil.
We use lucerne mulch for the green crops and sugar cane mulch for the root
crops.
These mulches are excellent because you can dig them into the soil after you
harvest each crop.
No more Snails or Slugs with:
No more Bindii & Clover with:
Searles® Bindii &
Clover Killer - Lawn Weeder that is suitable for most established lawns except
Buffalo Grass.
No more weeds with:
Surefire Glyphosate 360 or Searles Dead Weed
and
Searles® Spreadmax
After good rain, weeds are in the perfect condition for applying
herbicide.
Maximum results are easy to achieve.
Ask us.
Organic Gardening
Email us your hints and tips
for organic gardening.
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Organic
Seeds
Eden Seeds - Their aim is to distribute old traditional open
pollinated varieties of vegetable seed preferably old Australian varieties
and organically or bio-dynamically grown where possible.
Organic Plant Care
- our ever-increasing range includes the following:
Fertilisers:
Searles Kickalong
- a range of organic fertilisers for
every type of plant.
Liquid Fish Fertiliser
Liquid Seaweed Fertiliser
Liquid Fish & Kelp Fertiliser
Liquid Blood & Bone
Liquid 5-in-one
Seaweed Concentrate
Pest and Disease control:
Eco-naturalure - Fruit Fly
Bait Concentrate. For the control of fruit flys including Qld fruit fly and
medfly, infesting various tree, fruit, nut, vine, and vegetable crops and
ornamentals and on fly resting sites including non-crop vegetation.
Eco-oil - Miticide / Insecticide
Eco-rose - Fungicide. For the
control of powdery mildew and black spot in roses in the home garden.
Eco-neem - Insecticide
Home-made Remedies
Late afternoon is the better time for
spraying.
The following recipes are preventative sprays for deterring
insect pests.
Recipe. Chop 90 grams of garlic, cover with
mineral oil let soak over night, strain, add 1 litre of soapy water and
store in a glass jar with a sealed lid.
Dilute one part garlic to 50 parts water for
use in spraying.
(Harmless to animals and humans) Recipe:
two
heaped tablespoons pyrethrum flowers, stand in one litre of hot soapy water
for one hour, strain and use (the soap will help the spray to stick on the
plants.)
Do not inhale the fumes as they are
toxic.
Blend fresh chillies in water, add pure
soap, strain and spray. Acts as a stomach poison and can be used against
caterpillars. Spray along ant trails or kitchen shelves as an ant repellent.
Used by beekeepers to keep ants from hives.
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