TBH Garden Projects

19/07/2023

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A fresh haircut for your rosemary plant benefits plant health and your garden aesthetic. Pruning can help:
Like lavender, rosemary only grows new leaves on pliable, green stems. Cutting off the tips encourages the stems to branch out and grow into multiple stems rather than one woody stem. The result is a bushier, more attractive plant.
Pruning rosemary encourages it to funnel energy into the roots. This is especially important in the early stages of growth and the weeks leading up to winter dormancy.
Disease prevention pruning, encourages airflow between rosemary branches, making pathogens less likely to take hold. This is particularly important in extra humid climates where powdery mildew and botrytis often attack rosemary.
Prevent woodiness, rosemary's fragrant needles and flowers cannot grow on old crowns or trunks. Pruning encourages the plant to remain pliable and green rather than woody and brown.
Prevent leggy growth without pruning, rosemary stems can get out of control. Leggy growth leads to floppy stems, weak plants, and a greater risk of damage in heavy winds.
Maintain shape whether you prefer a cone-shaped bush, gumdrop shrub, pathway border, or a large hedge, rosemary can be pruned into nearly any shape you desire.

10/05/2023

Isn’t this interesting. We are doing a potting mix trial here to see which potting mixes are best. The cheapest one, which is sold in Bunnings smells like the garbage tip when you open the bag, it’s really that bad, but we’ve noticed the seedlings are just dropping dead.
It’s the cheapest, but it’s the worst performing after day 4.
It costs $3.98.
What a bargain.

29/04/2023

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One of my favourite crops to plant is garlic and now’s the time to do it (from autumn to late winter). It’s a no fuss, highly productive crop and allows me to eat the copious amounts of garlic i require on pretty much everything💚.

My latest article in shows you how and a couple of little tricks along the way 🙂.

You can also watch this snappy reel to see the whole process -https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1964556550398860

EDIT: A bit more info on garlic:
- In tropical areas you’ll have more success with spring onions, chives and tropical shallots (Allium ascalonicum), so focus on these instead.
- When do you know how harvest garlic? It'll take around 6 - 8months (depending on your variety. Count the number of remaining green leaves. Hardneck garlic, which has a firmer stem, should be harvested when it has four or five leaves left. Softneck garlic, which has a softer stem, should be harvested when it has around six leaves remaining.

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18/11/2021

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Finally; clear proof that steam can out-perform glyphosate and all other alternatives when it comes to w**d control. The recent study by Deakin University at Kingston CC showed that steam was up to 1000% more effective than all other non-herbicide alternative methods studied (and up to 200% better than glyphosate) at the 4 weeks post application mark (councils commonly use 4–6 week intervals). Not only did steam surpass all competitors at 4 weeks but, even at 12 weeks it was still up there with glyphosate and with no significant change to the soil biome. It also showed that the effect got better over time. This study was performed by completely untrained steam machine operators using an entry level competitor’s machine and still obtained these game changing results. The herbicide lobby will certainly try to use this to undermine all of the other alternative treatments and reinstate glyphosate but, with Weedtechnics machines and safe, cost effective, specialist operators like ours, they no longer have any excuse to use it anywhere near you, your children or your pets!
Thanks for your great work Deakin Uni: Study: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/20/11454/htm Table from study below.

22/08/2020

We'll take you straight to your free resources, and show you everything you need to know before welcoming chickens into your life!

26/07/2020

Some great advice for growing indoor plants in Melbourne from a very clever lady 🥰🥰🥰

19/06/2020

Genius!! 🐔🐔🐔

20/05/2020

So cool! 💛🐝