Comments on: Veg Patch Diaries #6

By: Kobe Candido

Kobe Candido — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:51:57 +0000

What product to use in garden to keep neighbours CATS away?….faeces and spray of urine? PLEASE….do not have a DOG to kep cats away.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:48:27 +0000

How do I get RID of neighbours CATS from using my garden for faeces?

By: Vicky

Vicky — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:11:23 +0000

Hi Greenhouse Gardening.

Thank you for your comment. I’m still learning the very basics of gardening and honestly wouldn’t know the first thing about hydroponics. Although I should imagine that it would require pumps etc for the water and therefore energy to run them. Not sure if that it such a great thing for green gardening unless the energy is renewable.

By: Greenhouse Gardening

Greenhouse Gardening — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:24:17 +0000

Hi! I was surfing the internet Monday afternoon during my break, and found your blog by searching Yahoo for greenhouse gardening. This is a topic I have great interest in, and follow it closely. I liked your insight on , and it made for good reading. What do you think of these hydroponics gardens?

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Veg Patch Diaries #7 - Green Girls Global Blog — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:51:02 +0000

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By: Vicky

Vicky — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:32:51 +0000

Thanks Anna-Lisa

I would never use chemicals either and wouldn’t encourage anyone else to do so.

We have lots of pest eating wildlife in our garden, the pond brings frogs and hoverflies and there are lots of shrubs for thrush and blackbrids. In fact we have a whole family of blackbirds each spring who help us out with the snails.

For small mammals though its much more difficult because so many of our neighbours have cats and there are foxes too. Its not unusual for me to find remains of animals that have been attacked.

Our garden is wildlife friendly but the feline visitors aren’t I’m afraid – Don’t get me started on that though!

Thank you for the soil and feeding advice – I’m hoping that my compost will be ready by next spring.

By: Anna-Lisa

Anna-Lisa — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:18:59 +0000

You should be proud of what you have achieved and every year you grow you will gain more knowledge. With regards to feeding your garden, it is always best to get the soil right before you sow or plant your vegetables. Using organic matter such as that from your compost bin is very important in soil preperation, as is using a a rotation system and companion planting such as ‘Three Sisters’ for sweetcorn, beans and squash or pumpkins. Controlling pests can be difficult, however if you encourage the right wildlife into your garden then it can help without using chemicals (i would never use chemicals in mine). Frogs, hedgehogs and the song thrush eat snails so by encouraging them to your garden will help. Hoverflies, lacewings and ladybirds eat aphids so if you plant sugar rich flowers near vegetables that are affected then it can help. You also need to encourage such wildlife to hibernate in your garden over winter for next year, so having natural habitats for them such as piles of logs will help. Keep growing and you will defeintely keep learning.