‘Loddon Lea’, the farm of Rick and Helen Lovel, is located at Eddington in Central Victoria and has been carefully developed to maximise the year-round grazing for their Black Angus cattle herd.
If you’ve ever been lucky enough to have been given a bunch or pot of Chrysanthemums, you’ll know how colourful and beautiful they are. Available in a huge variety, there are a few secrets to caring for your Chrysanthemums which will help to maximise their stunning blooms.
This week, Neutrog’s Microbiologist and R&D Manager, Dr. Uwe Stroeher talks about soil nutrient cycling, and how you can influence this to benefit your plants. The story of nutrient cycling is very interesting – many people think that in order for lush plant growth in your garden, you need lots and lots of nutrients. This is true to some extent, however in rainforests or tropical areas, in many cases the soil itself is nutrient poor, so the lush growth is due to rapid cycling of those nutrients. When leaves or other organic matter fall in these tropical areas, the insects and microbes quickly get to work in breaking down the material in order to make the nutrients available for the next round of plant growth. It is by the action of bacteria and fungi that the rainforest can support the diversity and vigour, however we can’t all have a rainforest…
Graham Douglass, Chairman of the Wynn Vale Community Garden reports on his recent findings of his GOGO Juice trials. Below are photographs of standard Iceberg rose bushes at the Wynn Vale Community Gardens. Graham states “The bush treated with GOGO Juice has had regular applications at the rate of 10ml per 5 litres watered into the base of the rose bush each month.” “As you can see the untreated bushes are badly affected by black spot, and aphids are present, whereas the treated bushes are very clean, there is no black spot, no aphids and the bushes appear much larger due to healthier foliage.”
Graham Douglass from Wynn Vale Community Garden in South Australia has conducted a GOGO Juice trial with spring onions. spring onions were planted one month ago from the same punnet both pots are filled with the same potting mix both pots watered with rain water only the pot on the right had GOGO Juice applied as per the application rate on a fortnightly basis “I must say I am very impressed with the product” – Graham Douglass
