Nigel visits Yates garden competition winner
Presenter: Nigel Ruck
Episode: 25 (20th October 2007)
Earlier in the year we ran a Yates gardening competition where a winner in every state won $1000 dollars worth of Yates Waterwise products and a visit from one of the Gurus.
Nigel visited the home of NSW winner Christine Porter to offer some tips on waterwise gardening.
Nigel
‘Hi Christine how are you? Congratulations you’ve won, are you ready for me?”
Christine
“I certainly am”
Nigel
“OK Christine how can I help?”
Christine
“Nigel, I have problems growing vegetables in my vegetable patch.”
Nigel
“It’s a bit small, vegetables need plenty of light and so I think you have a bit of a shade issue there. I’d move the vegetables out, this is a good spot possibly, and you’ve got good sunlight. Another good spot would be in front of the deck here. It’s bathed in sun and has good drainage.”
Christine
“Nigel what can I do with these Murrayas? I’ve put them in to get privacy but as you can see some have grown and some haven’t.”
Nigel
“Yeah look they are the right plant but you know what the problem is? It’s the box elder which is sucking out the moisture and nutrients from the soil. It’s also creating shade at that end but this end where there is no shade they are huge. Just persevere, maybe feed these ones up a little bit more, it’s a good time to prune too, you’ve got the right plant and it won’t be long until the jobs done perfectly.”
“This is a little bit of a nothing area Christine, what I think you should do is put in a water tank. You’ve got the room, you could put in like a streamline. You’ve also got room under the house. That water in dry times would be worth its weight in gold.”
Christine
“The rest of this patch?”
Nigel
“You could maybe do more vegetables; use the area as a utility area for bins.”
Christine
“I have so many sleepless nights with these sleepers, they are all warped”
Nigel
“Yeah well you’re not on your own there Christine, I know the feeling. The problem is they are just lying here and they will warp and bend. What I would do is dig out a little trench and tip them on their edge. Put some hardwood pegs or treated pine pegs into the soil and screw the sleeper to the peg. You will get a lot more of a rigid solid edging that way and stop all the bending and warping.”
Christine
“Thank you very much Nigel. Before you leave take a lemon home with you.”
Episode: 25 (20th October 2007)
Earlier in the year we ran a Yates gardening competition where a winner in every state won $1000 dollars worth of Yates Waterwise products and a visit from one of the Gurus.
Nigel visited the home of NSW winner Christine Porter to offer some tips on waterwise gardening.
Nigel
‘Hi Christine how are you? Congratulations you’ve won, are you ready for me?”
Christine
“I certainly am”
Nigel
“OK Christine how can I help?”
Christine
“Nigel, I have problems growing vegetables in my vegetable patch.”
Nigel
“It’s a bit small, vegetables need plenty of light and so I think you have a bit of a shade issue there. I’d move the vegetables out, this is a good spot possibly, and you’ve got good sunlight. Another good spot would be in front of the deck here. It’s bathed in sun and has good drainage.”
Christine
“Nigel what can I do with these Murrayas? I’ve put them in to get privacy but as you can see some have grown and some haven’t.”
Nigel
“Yeah look they are the right plant but you know what the problem is? It’s the box elder which is sucking out the moisture and nutrients from the soil. It’s also creating shade at that end but this end where there is no shade they are huge. Just persevere, maybe feed these ones up a little bit more, it’s a good time to prune too, you’ve got the right plant and it won’t be long until the jobs done perfectly.”
“This is a little bit of a nothing area Christine, what I think you should do is put in a water tank. You’ve got the room, you could put in like a streamline. You’ve also got room under the house. That water in dry times would be worth its weight in gold.”
Christine
“The rest of this patch?”
Nigel
“You could maybe do more vegetables; use the area as a utility area for bins.”
Christine
“I have so many sleepless nights with these sleepers, they are all warped”
Nigel
“Yeah well you’re not on your own there Christine, I know the feeling. The problem is they are just lying here and they will warp and bend. What I would do is dig out a little trench and tip them on their edge. Put some hardwood pegs or treated pine pegs into the soil and screw the sleeper to the peg. You will get a lot more of a rigid solid edging that way and stop all the bending and warping.”
Christine
“Thank you very much Nigel. Before you leave take a lemon home with you.”
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