HeyJaredJackie French
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Spring is the perfect time to unleash your inner dominatrix (opens the original)
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Spring gardening is not for wimps. It's a time of unrestrained growth, which is mostly a Good Thing. Plants can do more than 50 per cent of their annual growth if fed and watered in spring. But that growth needs to be controlled, as do the pests that eat it. It's time to unleash your inner dominatrix or become the Genghis Khan of gardening, and be ruthless - just for a while. Leave a weed now and it will seed or spread. By summer it will be a patch of weeds, deep rooted and determined. Dig them
The summer bulbs I lusted after but managed - only just - to resist (opens the original)
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I have succumbed. A dozen or so tempting summer plant catalogues later - and despite all warnings of a drought summer, when the garden will receive only a few daily buckets of shower water - I have put in a plant order. A small order. Well, smallish: two geranium/pelargoniums with vivid red and white flowers that I couldn't resist, so didn't, and a genuine geranium, a rambling purple-flowered variety. I adore purple flowers, as do the local native blue bees. All three plants will go into hanging
Why turnips are no longer a turn-off - and how to grow them (opens the original)
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A serve of cold turnips back in medieval times was a unsubtle hint not to expect anything frisky in the bedroom afterwards. Cold turnips were held to be an "anaphrodisiac", a sure antidote for lust. It was probably an effective cure. The smell of elderly boiled turnips is enough to make anyone gloomy. Life would have lost even more lustre by the time any medieval bloke munched his way through chilly hunks of fibrous root. Back in my early childhood, before supermarkets and mass refrigeration, th
Let me give you the dirt on why compost makes food taste better (opens the original)
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Tomatoes taste better when fed with compost, according to a recently completed study by the University of Queensland and reported by the ABC. The tomatoes were not just sweeter, but chemical analysis showed higher umami-associated amino acids. The flavour kept developing for 12 days after harvest. It's a fabulous study, but it isn't exactly breaking new ground, pun intended. Somewhere along my shelves of old gardening books there's one with a 1928 British university study with exactly the same c
The toughest flowers to plant for a hot, dry Canberra summer (opens the original)
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The best heat- and drought-proof flowers that will keep you in blooms over the approaching scorching summer are the floribunda or groundcover rose bushes you planted 15 years ago, that have had time to grow big roots, or the clumps of Russian sage you cleverly established five years ago with its spires of blue flowers, the buddleia or "butterfly bush" planted five years ago and watered and kept weeded, or the purple bougainvillea planted 20 years ago so it has now grown out of frost reach. The "
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