This is a great technique to one keep pests at bay and enhance the production of your garden.

It's as simple as planting different species together, potato and cabbage is a great example. 

The potato keeps the cabbage moth away and the cabbage increases the production of the potatoes.

Click here to get to my vegetable companion planting page.

Enjoy, Barry 🙂

Back online again, looking forward to sharing some good information to be able to help you grow happy, healthy produce. Yes happy, happy because it is being grown the best way possible. Best for the plant, best of the planet, and best for you.

I am doing a trial with Silicea on some of my Desert Rose to see if I can get them to flower earlier than the control group.

http://www.centerforhomeopathy.com/blog/treating-plants-with-homeopathy

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/104546274/top-farm-environment-prize-goes-to-orchardists-for-first-time

Click link below for a great article on home grown vegetables and the cost benefits

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/garden/103884298/meet-3-gardeners-knocking-thousands-off-their-food-bill

Liquid fish fertiliser is hands down the most important tool in your arsenal against pests.

A regular foliar feed on the plant leaves a film of oil on your plant making them unattractive to bugs and nasties.

A cost-effective safe alternative to insecticides.

Click here to go to page

Cheers,

Barry

Northland School puts spare land to good use.

http://thisnzlife.co.nz/small-country-school-turning-profit-land/

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/zero-mass-solar-panels-2016-10

http://ourdailyideas.com/a-companion-planting-system-for-a-beautiful-chemical-free-vegetable-garden/