Summer has arrived and with it the first flush of flowers and growth. Plant care at this time of year is important to ensuring the most of one's garden.
This collection of poetry has been brought together by the respected anthologist and poet, Harvey McQueen. The illustrations from photographs by Gil Hanley, of a variety interesting images give an added dimension to this anthology.
Practical Gardening Tomato Growing
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Summer Privacy in the Garden
It's summer and we use our gardens more than ever. As space becomes more and more precious it becomes ever harder to gain privacy in our shrinking backyards. Large trees are simply not an option in courtyards and tiny city gardens.
A striking bamboo screen, geometric in design, is a pleasing and innovative way to gain privacy in the garden. Light and breezes are admitted and it does not have a claustrophobic feel of a tiny garden with high walls.
Adapt it with a more rustic look, using branches of manuka for a knobbly screen or the prunings from a country friend's boundary screen. Willows would make a great material, strong and good-looking, but take care they don't root and grow, or you'll have a great big tree in your garden anyway!
Have you noticed how tomato growing can become competitive? Families and friends compete for the earliest, the biggest, the healthiest. 