Simply Gardening with Kath Irvine

Bucket worm farms and the brilliance of vermicastings. How to really simply and effectively bring in hundreds of hungry food eating rascals to give you amazing vermicastings to use with your planting and to automatically feed the garden. Note - have an old food processor you don't really want anymore? Keep it and whiz up a menu for your new wormy friends and you will be repaid in the garden with extraordinary results.

Passionvine Hoppers, aka fluffy bums, are the topic of this conversation with the fabulous Kath Irvine. These little pests get their cute name from the fluffy little backsides of the infants, that bloom into little brown flying bugs. Do not fret, Kath is here to tell us why they have showed up for a bit of a party in your garden and why not to panic, the best way to treat them (pause first please) and what it is telling you about your garden.

Gardening made accessible with wonderful gardening teacher and author Kath Irvine. With her 20 years plus experience, Kath sits down in a live to air interview with Catherine and discusses all things gardening. Visit https://ediblebackyard.co.nz

Seedling transplanting can be treacherous during hot and windy conditions. But fear not. The experienced weather wise gardener Kath Irvine has some great tips to get your precious little seedlings into the ground and flourishing before you can say "oh this wind!". Ok maybe not that quick but good ideas just the same.

Gardening made accessible with wonderful gardening teacher and author Kath Irvine. With her 20 years plus experience, Kath sits down in a live to air interview with Catherine and discusses all things gardening. Visit https://ediblebackyard.co.nz

Mulching - what to use, where to get it from, can you make it yourself? Another great listener question answered today and it is all about Mulch. Where to best get your mulch from, what sort of mulch to use under trees versus what you use in the veggie garden and how live mulch is primo people! Super handy info again from Gardener Kath Irvine.

Gardening made accessible with wonderful gardening teacher and author Kath Irvine. With her 20 years plus experience, Kath sits down in a live to air interview with Catherine and discusses all things gardening. Visit https://ediblebackyard.co.nz

Letting the garden go? What?? Like wild? Yes, that is something to consider. You don't need to join some hippy tribe or start smoking something fruity, just perhaps not be so rigid with the garden. Just let it be, let it grow, be a bit more chilled people is all we are suggesting here in this episode.

Gardening made accessible with wonderful gardening teacher and author Kath Irvine. With her 20 years plus experience, Kath sits down in a live to air interview with Catherine and discusses all things gardening. Visit https://ediblebackyard.co.nz