Weeds – Chickweed
Posted on 29. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.
Chickweed or Stellaria media- the most common garden weed worldwide.
What is it? An annual weed which forms a dense matting smoothering other plants. It also hosts other pests such as whitefly and red spider mite.
It matures and produces seed in 5-6 weeks and has lots of germination periods in one year. It has small white [...]
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Weeds – Creeping Wood Sorell
Posted on 29. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.
Creeping Wood Sorell or Oxalis corniculata atropurpurea
What is it? This perennial creeping plant has clover shaped trifold leaves. It is regarded as a weed of gardens, agricultural fields and lawns. It is an invasive and self-seeding weed.
Month Occurred: May to October
Solution: It is easy to remove by hand and remove the runners as [...]
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Weeds – Couch Grass
Posted on 29. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.
What is it? A grass perennial with creeping underground stems. It is very invasive and will regrow from any small part of the rhizome.
Month Occurred: May to October.
Solution: Cover area in black plastic which will suppress the grass. Repeatedly removing by hand will eventually remove most of the grass, when removing dig out as [...]
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Week 15 – 21.07.07 Harvest & Pests Report
Posted on 21. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.
This week I will mostly be Harvesting:-
Spring greens,
Carrots,
Spring onions,
New potatoes,
Leaf Beat,
Peas.
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Slug Fest!
Posted on 03. Jun, 2007 by Tracey.
My lettuces have been munched and most have been completed destroyed by something. At first I couldn’t work out what the pest was but had a funny suspicion that even though I couldn’t see any slugs or slime trail, it must be them – Slugs.
So I ordered some Nemotodes – an organic natural way [...]
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Attack of the Killer Aphids!
Posted on 13. May, 2007 by Tracey.
The little blighters, those peskey aphids, blackfly and greenfly have been at my Tomato’s!
Mission Destroy Aphid (MDA) has been activated and will operate a cleanup operation to de-aphid all the tomato plants within a radius of my mini greenhouse.
Mission MDA has been deployed and so far has been successful to eradicate the enemy!
A Monitoring [...]
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