The Great Container Mix Experiment - First Update

Well, I intended to write before now with a two week update, however life catches you and sometimes puts aside things like blogs! So today I present to you week 1 and 7 of the Great Container Mix Experiment. Summary So Far Back on October 28 I transplanted all my plants into their respective mixes for my experiment. Three mixes were used.  The first was my interpretation of Al 'Tapla's' 5-1-1 mix from the GardenWeb forums, made of pine...

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Ants On Cherry Trees

If You Look Closely You May See Ants on Your Cherries If you have cherry trees, and you spend some time in Spring looking at them you may see troops of large ants moving up and down the branches. In some cases ants on your plants may be a negative thing, as they can farm pests such as aphids, protecting them from predators and collecting sugary rewards they produce. Ants can also attack sweet developing fruits, and do some damage. On your...

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One Important Change You Can Make For Healthy Blueberry Plants

How to Fix Yellowing Blueberry Leaves Healthy Blueberry I learnt a valuable lesson this year, when despite having blueberries in a low pH soil medium, they refused to grow and were suffering. Wondering why, I delved into the internet, and can now offer this very important, and simple tip. Previously I wrote about the very specific soil needs of blueberries, and said that for blueberries to grow healthily they need a low soil pH, or they will...

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Berries in Spring in Canberra

Besides figs, berries are some of my favourite things to eat. Always full of flavour, most berries are also extremely high in antioxidants and other healthy goodness. Blueberries in particular are always being touted as superfoods. Blueberries  Unripe Berried on Powder-Blue All my blueberries are coming along nicely, except for one, which flowered profusely and then unexpectedly died with the big frost two weeks ago.  Although...

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