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South Australia - April 2003 |
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7th |
After
that February rain, you could be forgiven for thinking that winter had
arrived early, but the soil temperature under my lawn at 8.30am on a
morning of rain recently, was still 16.6 degrees C, so the roots of lawns
and roses are still receptive to feeding. |
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14th
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Alan of Burnside is complaining that he has
little worms eating his carrots before he does. The little worms could be
the larvae of the Carrot Rust Fly, but more common is the hole left by the
plain old every day garden variety of vegetable weevil and its larvae.
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21st |
Unley City Council has just launched their
Organo-Fert, a totally composted organic product that Collex collect at
kerbside if you live in Unley, processed by Pe4ats Soils at Willunga and
returned to you for about $8 a 30 litre bag for a friable black compost with
the sweetest organic odour.
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28th
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With all the leaf litter about as autumn moves
in, there is always the debate about ‘what is best to compost?’
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