Guide to Gardening

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Controlling Rats and Mice

Rats and mice cause major damage to agricultural crops by eating newly-sown seeds, young plants and seed heads on grain crops. In the home garden they can cause similar damage and have also been found to eat starchy plant parts such as bulbs or swollen roots.

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Controlling Weeds

How to control weeds in the garden.

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Create a Bug Free Garden

Tips on how to keep things that bug you out of the garden.

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Create a Citrus Garden

Citrus fruits help keep winter sniffles at bay, and growing your own ensures that you’ll have plenty of fresh fruit to enjoy. Find out how to create a healthy citrus garden.

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Create a Herb Garden

The best way to enjoy herbs is to have them growing right outside the kitchen where you can harvest them just when you need them. Read more to find out how to grow a healthy herbs.

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Create a Prickle-free Lawn

Winter’s the season when lawns are invaded by a range of ugly weeds. The worst of these is the dreaded prickly bindii that makes walking on the lawn in bare feet a misery. Weeds can really spoil the look of the lawn, too, but with Yates help your grass can be healthy and weed-free.

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Create a Waterwise Garden

Yates has been advising and helping gardeners for over 120 years, and during that period there have been many serious droughts. Read more to find out how to save water in your garden.

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Create an Indoor Garden

Find out how to create a healthy indoor garden.

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Create an Organic Garden

Organic gardening means growing in harmony with the environment without resorting to chemical fertilisers and pest controls. Even if you don’t go completely organic, it’s helpful to try and introduce some organic principles into your gardening.

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Create the Taste of Italy

Tomatoes are summer favourites and homegrown tomatoes taste so much better. You don’t need a big backyard as tomatoes are easy to grow in pots too. Read more for some great tips on growing great tomatoes.

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Creating a Garden on a Slope

How to garden on a steep slope

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Creating a Potted Garden

How to grow happy potted plants

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Gardening With Kids

Kids’ gardening

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Growing From Cuttings

Have you always coveted a particular plant in a friend’s garden and wished you could have a specimen yourself? Growing plants from cuttings is the easiest- and definitely the cheapest- way to propagate large numbers of plants.

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Hardwood Cuttings

Have you ever tried your own plant propagation? It sounds like the sort of thing only serious gardeners do, but it’s really quite easy, especially at this time of year.

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How to Make Compost

Most gardeners know that composting garden and kitchen refuse saves money and enriches the soil. However, many consider that the space a compost bin occupies is better used for plants. An attractive way to hide service areas and such mundane items as compost bins is to create out-of-the- way corners that can be hidden by a fence on which ornamental climbing plants, climbing vegetables and fruit such as cucumber, beans, peas or grapevines are grown.

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Layering & Propagation

Here’s another failsafe way of propagating favourite plants.

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Potting Herbs – A Mother’s Day Gift

How to grow a potted herb garden

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Pruning

Tips on pruning.

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Pruning Roses

Roses do respond really well to pruning.

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Saving Water in the Garden

How to grow a Waterwise garden

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Successful Seed Raising

How to grow plants from seed

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Winter Lawn Care

Late winter’s an important time for solving lawn problems.

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Winter Pruning

Winter is the time when we all get enthusiastic about pruning. There’s a certain amount of tradition in this because many plants are pruned in winter, but cool winter days are also far more conducive to physical activity. And pruning can, indeed, be quite hard work.

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