Story Title: Feeding your veggies
Episode 2: WA's Great Gardens
Date: 23 May
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane

Growing veggies is great fun and if you have set up the soil the right way you will enjoy enormous success.

Trevor's Tips and Facts

• The veggie garden is not just about veggies, it's also about fruit. Try growing raspberries which deliver amazing tasting fruit when home-grown.
• The trouble is that they are a voracious feeder requiring large amounts of food to sustain them .Yellowing is a classic symptom they have run out of food
• Whilst they will go dormant in late June until October, this is the last chance to correct any deficiencies in your soils nutritional structure.
• Trevor has been trialling Grow Potion for the past year. It has been designed to improve soils on several levels and the results are amazing.
• With soil, particularly sandy soil, the moisture content and organic or humus level content is absolutely critical and that is why we rave on about the importance of mulch. The more you use on a regular basis the better your soil quality is.
• Grow Potion gets plants growing again, so soaking your garden beds every week or two with a liquid solution of this is going to do them absolute wonders.
• Apply this fertilizer as a liquid, mix it in a watering can and then water over the foliage. The plants absorb it through their leaves and roots so it's taken up quickly. All solution that falls on soil immediately boosts the soils health too, so a good drench is a good idea.
• In the case of raspberries, not only will colour return to the plants foliage but the fruit will taste better. Another benefit of having the healthiest plants, is they are far more tolerant of stressful conditions like stinking hot or freezing cold days or nights. And this means you use less water to keep them looking great.
• The other important thing for plants is broad range nutrition. In other words, the widest possible collection of beneficial minerals which not all fertilisers have. A bit like vitamin tablets are used by people. This has all the minerals and natural elements required for poor quality soils and applying now to good gardens will boost the nutrient base just in time to get your plants through winter.
• So raspberries will be healthier, taste better and most importantly be better for us because they have all the base nutrients we need. And what they eat is ultimately what we eat so we have to make sure we boost the soil quality and health.
• Shades of Green is available at City Farmers and all good garden centres.

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