Monthly Gardening Tips – September

It’s September! What a fabulous month September is. Any gardener knows that September marks the beginning of the pay off for all your preparation work throughout winter. If you have worked hard, September and spring will be an absolutely marvellous time in your garden. What makes September such a good month for gardens is the [...]

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From the Vault – July

Here is a reposted article from 2007 on soil-wetting agents. Soil Wetting Agents Ahhh winter, the brisk mornings, the cloudy skies, the inability to simply walk 5 metres without getting wet…oh how I do not enjoy it! However, although I may not enjoy the rain, your garden will and we DO need rain. Only one [...]

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From the Vault – Pruning

It is getting towards the time of year where you need to start thinking about pruning some of your plants for the winter period. Many plants ’shut down’ over the winter period and so cutting of dead flowers and parts of the plant help the plant to survive even the harshest winter. Pruning helps by [...]

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Follow me on Twitter

Just a quick note, you can now follow me on twitter. Sadly AussieGreenThumb was too long for a username so I went with aussiegardening. Simply search for aussiegardening and start following! I’ll be tweeting links to articles I find around the traps and also some tidbits of my own here and there. Go to twitter.com [...]

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From the Vault – April

Here is April’s entry from the vault, a reprinted article from Aussie Green Thumb back in 2007. Water Wise Gardening With water being a very precious resource in Australia, people need to become increasingly aware of just how much water their garden is using and how much they need to survive. Australian dams are running [...]

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What’s that mean? Understanding Gardening Vocabulary – Part 4

If you have just joined aussiegreenthumb.com in the last few weeks, here is a tip, this is the place to come if you have heard a word that you are unsure of what it means but feel like it is probably something really simple and don’t want to look silly asking it. Why? Because I [...]

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The Vegetable garden craze

I was reading the local newspaper yesterday and an opinion piece by Griffin Longley entitled ‘Gardening has seed of truth to save the earth’ caught my eye. The long and short of the article is that 2009 saw many, many people take to vegetable gardening and take to it with gusto. Apparently during 2009 the [...]

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My Gardening Story – Part 1

Welcome to the first installment of this series for 2010. The main purpose behind this series is to give you a little bit of background to where I have come from as a green thumb. I want to introduce you to the people that have shaped me into the gardener that I am and help [...]

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