Walking down the aisle of tonics, brews and potions of any nursery can be overwhelming. We get it! Trying to figure out whether to use the Eye of Newt or the Toe of Frog for a flourishing garden is confusing. Save that boiling cauldron for a pot of tea, we are here to help demystify two common allies in the garden.

The words fish fertiliser (emulsion) and seaweed extract are thrown around a lot by gardeners, so much so people often think they are one and the same. Although they are both your friend in the patch, fish fertiliser and seaweed extract have slightly different applications and work best being used together, rather than instead of the other in your veggie patch.

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Before you roll back your sleeves for some autumn/winter planting, we need to have a little chat about white cabbage moths and butterflies… honestly, we don’t want you to witness another brassica massacre this season. One day you’re looking at your brassicas with adoration, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, it is as if you can hear a heavenly choir praising your garden. NEXT MINUTE the breaks come to a SCREECHING HALT as some eating machines have devoured your greens. It’s a shame that the caterpillar of white cabbage moths share our appetite for cool-season crops.

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One of the most effective and easily available natural insecticides. The active ingredient of Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki is derived from beneficial bacteria found in soil, on plant surfaces, and also in insects. Dipel is toxic to caterpillars, but completely harmless to humans, birds, and beneficial insects such as ladybugs and bees. Learn how to use dipel to save your patch from a brassica massacre. 

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Psssst… yeah you, come closer, we want to let you in on a little secret, consider this the Berlin underground clubs of the compost world. It’s ok we know the bouncer, so you can skip the line and head straight to the bar of in-ground composting. This in-situ form of composting, means your compost is already at ground zero and doesn’t need to be lugged from the compost bin to your garden beds. Soil is being improved as decomposition takes place and you have just bought a room service buffet to the worms and microbes, so they aren’t checking out of this garden bed anytime soon.

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Seed-bombing is an old guerilla-gardening special, and one that is great fun for the kids: It’s a special type of warfare that creates life rather than destroying it. You get to choose which life to create and where you want to create it. Seed bombing originated as a way of beautifying derelict and hard-to-get-at land. It’s a rapid-fire way of getting things starred but the survival rate of the bombs is 50/50. With seed bombing it’s all about the numbers and the timing.

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