insectsandorganicgardening.com.au

07/10/2021

This is so damn accurate, wake up Australia!! This is still a great country in comparison to others around the world but our pollies need a big boot up the arse for what they have done. The changes in the political attitude over the last 50 years makes me cry, the criteria is no longer for the benefit of the people but for the Almighty $. 😓😓

01/02/2019

With the recent hot & dry weather it's important to remember the benefits of mulching around your plants, however in this video I show that you need to check the effectively of your watering. cheers Dave😉

28/12/2018

Sometimes it doesn't go quite to plan

24/12/2018

J*p Pumpkins 6 weeks after planting

23/12/2018

This short video shows the crop harvested from 7.5 kg planted

21/12/2018

Preparation of soil for Turmeric planting

21/12/2018

Soil preparation for Pumpkins

02/03/2018

Naughty, but nice: Species 514 found at Bellis, my sustainable garden is also the 26th bee species.

Megachile deanii (syn Rhodomegachile deanii) the small fire-tailed resin bee.

I've seen these active insects zooming around, pollinating flowers (they love goldenrod) but it wasn't until we split my stingless bee hives that they settled down long enough for a photo.

This solitary bee steals cerumen from stingless bee colonies to build individual nesting tubes. Their numbers have increased in tandem with more gardeners keeping stingless bees.

Watch them nicking cerumen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-AShjERA2s

02/03/2018

Analysis from EU’s scientific risk assessors finds neonicotinoids pose a serious danger to all bees, making total field ban highly likely

23/02/2018