WBCG Spring Market Stall

It's Spring and WBCG are coming back to the markets to celebrate. 

Our next Market Stall will be Sunday 11^th September, 8.00am - 1.00pm

at the Lions Club Markets, John Street car park, Warners Bay.

Why not grow your own delicious vegetables and herbs this summer? Provide healthy, organic food for your family while keeping costs down. Drop in to our market stall and pick up some organic vegetable and herb seedlings to kick start your garden.

Warners Bay Community Gardeners grow seedlings in hand-made newspaper pots for easy planting while avoiding transplant stress for the seedling. Simply dig a hole and pop the pot and seedling straight into the ground.

In season herbs and vegetables available.

Using Natures Way to Control Pests and Disease

Many vegetables grow well with other plants in the garden and using a few basic principles, organic gardeners can really have nature on their side in the biological control of pests.

Q: How can you control pests and diseases naturally?

A: The best way to control plant diseases is to prevent them occurring in the first place.      

     This can be achieved with healthy cultivation methods:

1. Choose plants that match your garden's conditions and are pest-resistant.
2. Water to encourage strong root systems and avoid humid conditions. That is infrequent deep watering in the early or late part of the day. Less water on the surface means roots have to search.
3. Add organic matter to soils as manures, compost and mulch - to encourage microbes that attack plant pathogens and to supply nutrients to plants keeping them vigorous and healthy.
4. Use seaweed and fish emulsions to boost the plant's immunity to pest and disease attack.
5. Fertilise to strengthen plants e.g. ensure plants have adequate potassium (promoting thick cell walls).
6. Plant to encourage predators and plant decoys to distract pests e.g. Mulberries encourage wasps and hibiscus will distract stink beetles from citrus.
7. Try some companion planting.