SixSeeds

13/08/2023

Land Based Training NZ is offering a fantastic new course for people who want to integrate sustainable practices into their own work, lifestyle blocks, farms, horticultural growing businesses, home gardens and community projects. Starting in September.
https://landbasedtraining.co.nz/course/sustainable-primary-production-l

06/05/2023

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21/06/2018

Amazing effort. The moth plant is a serious pest plant! Well done

Auckland high school students take on an unusual challenge – eradicating moth plants pods.

31/05/2018

Pruning is a VITAL part of tree management, whether you have one tree or an orchard. By pruning well in Winter you.....

🍎 gain healthy and vital trees
🍏 control disease and damage
🍊 maximise fruit production
🍒 reduce the need for harsh chemicals

24/05/2018

🌿It's amazing what you find when the garden gets a tidy!🌿
Buddha found in the jungle 😂😍
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22/05/2018

“Any chance that a human being gets to turn earth and work soil and plant is a part of remembering what it means to be a human. It creates this ancient living link to the land that we're all a part of. Every time we do it, every time we touch a seed, every time we turn the soil, it's connecting us to who we are, it's connecting us to the bigger picture of where we come from and what we need to survive. Earth, seed, food, nourishment, life, and get to participate in that process, it puts us back in the cycle of being human again.” Biko of Rising Appalachia Music
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16/04/2018

🍀KNOW YOUR WEEDS 🍀
Plectranthus ciliatus also known as Wild Sage originating in South Africa. Brought to NZ and used as a decorative exotic indoor plant which managed to jump ship and was recorded in the wild by 1965
🐞Runners are the only method of spread, and are moved around in soil and with greenwaste dumping.
🐌Forms dense mats, similar to tradescantia, that prevent seedlings of native species from establishing, leading to eventual thinning of the canopy and the area being opened up to invasion by other weedy vines and pest plants
❌Plectranthus ciliatus is no longer permitted to be sold, propagated, distributed or
commercially displayed on the basis that it is now a Regional Surveillance
Plant Pest within the Auckland Region.

04/04/2018

🌜Late summer/early Autumn🌛 is the time for clean up to prepare for winter vege's 🍁🍂

But don't panic you still have time and you will be glad you did 😎

01/04/2018

🌱WEED OF THE WEEK🌱
🌿Araujia hortorum or commonly known as Moth Plant Vine is a fast-growing vine growing to 6m tall and can cover a tree canopy in two or three years, competing with the tree for light, water, and nutrients. It damages trees by twining so tightly around their branches that it girdles them.
🌿It has clusters of small creamy white or pink flowers during December to May.
🌿The large pear-shaped fruit is grey-green and contains hundreds of fluffy white seeds, which are easily dispersed by wind when the fruit splits open. The vine produces a milky-white sap when damaged.
✅Reported to be food plant of butterfly caterpillar Danaus plexippus (Monarch butterfly)
❌The plant is toxic to poultry, cattle and other species, including dogs. Death can occur within 24 hours in some cases, with recovery in others. Signs and symptoms of poisoning are, nervous signs, particularly a disturbed sense of balance, staggering, vomiting and abdominal pain. The sap can cause skin irritation in humans.