Love of Dirt Nicki Mckay

Our final episode for 2021. In this episode I share tips that will help you learn how to have something to harvest from your vegetable garden every day with succession planting.

Flowers are an integral part of a thriving organic vegetable garden. In this post I talk about why should you grow flowers amongst your vegetables and our favourites to grow and why.

One of the first fruits I started to grow whilst renting was a blueberry. Many years ago blueberries used to be so cost prohibitive to buy here - around $8 for a 125g a punnet. I always thought they were a cool weather fruit after seeing them sell dirt cheap in huge punnets when we were travelling in Canada, but failing to realise that blueberry farms surrounded me in my home town growing up.In this episode I share some blueberry growing tips.

If you're a seed hoarder like myself, there is nothing worse than trying to propagate seeds and they are no longer viable even if the date says they should be good. Seeds do have a shelf life, but environmental influences (aka the way you store them) have a massive affect their viability.In this episode I talk about methods for storing your seeds.

I have so many people say to me that they are terrible at raising things from seeds. I get it, it can be pretty easy to kill seeds if the conditions aren’t right. Too much water, too little water. Too much sun, not enough sun. In this weeks podcast I wanted to share some tips for seed raising.

Powdery mildew can be devastating to many crops and it is highly infectious so can spread quickly in your garden if you don’t get control of it. In this episode I chat about what it is, how to avoid it and how to manage it when you've got it.