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The tomato/potato psyllid has caused a few headaches for gardeners when the populations of this relatively new pest build up and they affect not only potatoes and tomatoes but also a number of other host plants such as tamarillo, capsicum,, chili and peppino. The nymphs are so small and you need a magnifying glass to […]
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DEALING WITH SUMMER PESTS IN THE GARDEN (Wally Richards)
January 10th, 2024 
Awake Goy Gardening should be a pleasant pastime and not just another chore that has to be done. If you find it a chore then maybe there are too many things you are doing and the pleasure of working with plants and the soil is lost. There are things that we gardeners must do to keep everything […]
FROM WALLY RICHARDS
December 31st, 2023 Awake Goy As we close the door on the year 2023 and look to a new year in front of us and interesting times that lay ahead. Let us hope that people are not so naive as they now know better; the world is not like we thought it was; from our comfort zone and it has […]
Dealing with stressed plants in your garden (Wally Richards)
December 24th, 2023 Awake Goy Stress affects plants as well as all life forms as far as I am aware. We suffer stress in our day to day lives and this time of the year is especially stressful for some people. As there are different forms of stress which humans can be affected by, there are also different forms of […]
David Richards – Shakespeare was a Freemason
December 23rd, 2023 Awake Goy (Picture – The Shakespeare Monument erected in 1740. The crossed legs have a Rosicrucian significance. Shakespeare is pointing to the word Temples. A Masonic Temple is a room where a Masonic Lodge meets.) The West has been saturated in Satanism without even knowing it. Shakespeare was the founder (or pen name) for a school of […]
Pestie Pests in the garden (Wally Richards)
December 19th, 2023 Awake Goy Insects that eat, or feed off, our garden plants we call them pest insects but they are just part of the Natural World we live in and if there were no pest insects then that would also be the end of the beneficial insects that live by eating the ones we call pests. Unfortunately there […]
Gardening: What to plant & when (Wally Richards)
December 12th, 2023 Awake Goy With a great number of first time gardeners growing their own vegetables, a question that I am often asked is; when is the best time to plant various crops? This is a difficult question to answer as conditions vary greatly in different parts of the country. To make matters more complicated, you can have a […]
‘GARDENING WITH WALLY RICHARDS’ (Wally’s new book, release – 8 Dec 2023)
November 28th, 2023 Awake Goy It’s been a busy spring with lots of new and not so new gardeners returning to grow some vegetables and flowers for pleasure. Doing the gardening show with Rodney Hide on Radio Reality Check has increased the phone calls to my 0800 number with a number of people saying that they have listened to the […]
MYCORRCIN: GETTING A FAR BETTER GARDEN (Wally Richards)
November 17th, 2023 Awake Goy I was asked a very interesting question a while back which went like this, ‘How come my parents and grandparents had such bountiful gardens? Everything thrived and I never saw any great problems with pests and diseases, but on the other hand I have to use fertilisers and sprays just to maintain a mediocre garden. […]
Growing giants by encouraging your children to garden (Wally Richards)
November 14th, 2023 Awake Goy We need to encourage our children and grandchildren to appreciate Nature by including them in some gardening activities. I believe that young children have a natural infinity with plants and insects when they are allowed to explore our gardens. Children learn many things by mimicking their parents and are often keen at a young age […]
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No Comments »A gardening checklist, heading into Summer (Wally Richards)
October 29th, 2023 Awake Goy Now that we are halfway through Spring and quickly heading to Summer (December) there is a fair bit to do in our gardens so lets run a check list in case some things are missed. It will depend on what you have in your gardens as to whether any or all things aspects concern you. […]
DEALING WITH CODLIN, GUAVA MOTHS and ARMY WORM IN YOUR GARDEN (Wally Richards)
October 22nd, 2023 Awake Goy It is that time when fruit is setting and soon to be attacked from the grubs of moths; Codlin and Guava. Guava moth is mostly in the upper north island but there has been a few cases in other areas likely as a result of fruit been brought south from infected areas. So share with […]
Pollinating your plants (Wally Richards)
October 16th, 2023 Awake Goy I wrote an article on pollination and published in February this year as a number of gardeners were concerned that fruit was not setting and in particular zucchini and pumpkins and now we have a new season in front of us it would be a good time to repeat the subject. Besides there are a […]
THE PERFECT RAISED GARDEN (Wally Richards)
October 9th, 2023 Awake Goy Several years ago in the place where I was living; I had given over the back yard to a flock of chickens which made it awkward to grow vegetables in that area. Being a back section down a long driveway I decided to construct a raised garden in the end of the turning bay. A […]
More tomato growing tips (Wally Richards)
October 1st, 2023 Awake Goy I wrote a bit about tomato growing recently and since then I have realized there are more things worth knowing to be successful and have a great crop. There hundreds of different tomato types available world wide, red fruit, black fruit, even green fruit that are green when fully ripe. Sizes vary from the size […]
Bringing the ocean to your garden (Wally Richards)
September 24th, 2023 Awake Goy The first thing too realize is that plants will take up any minerals or elements that are in the growing medium along with any chemicals. For instance you avoid growing vegetables next to an older house as there is a likelihood of lead in the soil from lead paints used in the past on the […]
GROWING POTATOES AND THE POTATO PSYLLID (Wally Richards)
September 10th, 2023 Awake Goy Many gardeners will know the trick of planting a tomato plant deep into the soil right up to if not beyond the first set of leaves. The reason is that the plant will create roots all the way up the trunk which is buried, making for a bigger root system and a better plant. In […]
Tomato Psyllid problems in your garden (Wally Richards)
September 3rd, 2023 Awake Goy True to form spring started on the 1st September across New Zealand and with it a surge in gardeners visiting gardening shops and buying up plants and stuff to get under way in their gardens. Now at the beginning of the season is a good time to review previous articles on the Tomato/potato psyllid that […]
WORM FARMING (Wally Richards)
August 28th, 2023 Awake Goy Many years ago I learnt about worm farming and how to turn kitchen wastes into rich foods for the garden. A Palmerston North firm of Plastic Moldings started producing what I think was the first NZ made available worm farm in NZ called Worm-a-Round. I purchase one from their factory (and later on a second […]
TOMATO STARTING TIME (Wally Richards)
August 6th, 2023 Awake Goy August for my money is the start of a new growing season, the day light hours are increasing every day plus dormant plants and trees are waking up. Time waits for no man and so the quicker we get started the better; the sooner we will be rewarded with the fruits of our endeavors. Already […]
GARDENING FOR HEALTH (Wally Richards)
August 2nd, 2023 Awake Goy I am very conscious of people that have only small sections or live in flats, retirement villages and apartments which means they have either no land or very little land to grow food in. For people in those places they need to make the most economical use of their land available and also to grow […]
About plant diseases & how to control them (Wally Richards)
July 30th, 2023 Awake Goy Plant diseases appear when a plant is lacking in one or more elements or the plant is in stress for what ever reason. Normally we spray a fungicide to prevent or control a plant disease which sits on the surface of the leaves and branches. Dependent on the disease we use a copper fungicide or […]
FRUIT TREE TIME (Wally Richards)
June 25th, 2023 Awake Goy About this time each year; fruit tree nurseries lift the new season Delicious fruit trees out of the ground and either wrap the roots or bag them into planter bags, secured with twine as the roots have been cut. It is very important that as soon as the tree is out of the ground the […]
It’s time to plant garlic (Wally Richards)
June 19th, 2023 Awake Goy The traditional time of the year in NZ to plant garlic is on the shortest day and then harvest will be about on the longest day. (Can pay to leave till later in January as it may increase size of the bulbs.) The reason for this is that after the shortest day of sun light […]
Time to plant new season’s strawberries (Wally Richards)
June 11th, 2023 Awake Goy New seasons strawberry plants are now available in garden centres. The nurseries that grow the plants lift them after the autumn rains have moistened the soil sufficiently, then they are distributed to garden centres. I find that the sooner you can get your new strawberry plants into their new beds the better results you have […]
WET FEET IN THE GARDEN (Wally Richards)
May 21st, 2023 Awake Goy With some areas experiencing a lot of rain lately it is a good time to look at how to prevent damage and losses in your gardens. There is a range of plants we call bog plants and they just love living in wet soil and even in water which makes many of them suitable to […]
VISITING LIFE UNDER GROUND (Wally Richards)
May 16th, 2023 Awake Goy There is a saying which reads as… As Above So Below and with plants and trees what is above the soil level is replicated to what is below the soil level. With a tree it is the trunk and branches we see and mirrored under the soil is the tap root and the root system […]
The importance of phosphate in your garden (Wally Richards)
May 11th, 2023 Awake Goy Phosphorus stimulates budding and blooming. Plants need phosphorus to produce fruits, flowers, and seeds. It also helps make your plants more resistant to disease. Phosphorus helps plants gain more energy from sunlight and with cloudy, hazy skies we are seeing too often; plants need all the advantages possible to gain energy from sunlight. Phosphorus doesn’t […]
GROWING HIGH HEALTH VEGETABLES (Wally Richards)
May 11th, 2023 Awake Goy I have always enjoyed growing different plants that are not commonly available. This is one of the aspects that makes gardening more enjoyable and exciting when you have successes. Three vegetables that I have grown in the past and am writing about are not rare but not common for many gardeners. The first of these […]
FOOD AND HEALTH (Wally Richards)
April 9th, 2023 Awake Goy The father of medicine; Hippokrát s ho Kôios; (c. 460 – c. 370 BC) apparently said the historic words; ‘Let Food be Thy Medicine and Let Medicine be Thy Food’ Fairly logical and common sense; if you eat healthy you will be healthy. But what is healthy food and where do you get it from? […]
