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A garden without birds, bees and butterflies, just isn’t a garden’, says Elisabeth. Today we talk about the importance of attracting pollinators!

Australia is home to over 1500 bees and pollinating insects.

Here are some of the ‘bee magnet’ flowering plants.

• Salvias
• Buddleia (also a favourite with butterflies)
• Echium (check out the wildpretii variety)
• Poppies
• Cosmos
• Alyssum
• Queen Anne’s Lace
• Calendula
• Daisies
• Penstemon
• Natives such as wattles, bottle brushes, westringia, grevillea
• Herbs such as - borage, rosemary, oregano, thyme, basil, yarrow

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Website: https://www.muddyboots.net.au/
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Tomatoes - Australia’s most grown vegetable (or fruit, actually)! Today we learn Keith’s Top 10 tomatoes.

Easy to grow as long as they are given plenty of feed and plenty of sun. 

Lots of top tips today to tomato growing before we hear about Keith’s recommended varieties

1. Blue Beauty
2. Juane Flamme
3. Wapsipinicon Peach
4. San Marzano
5. Santorini
6. Tasmanian Chocolate
7. Black Russian
8. Black Truffle
9. Mortgage Lifter
10. Tommy Toe

Special mention too to the Tigerella variety - Keith’s recommendation if you are looking for a prolific fruiter!

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Website: https://www.muddyboots.net.au/
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As regular listeners would know, Keith raves about an easy to use Moon calendar.  Today we meet Sheree Scott whose parents developed this handy, easy to use Moon calendar wheel.

This traditional agrarian practice of observing the effect of the gravitational force of the moon has many sceptics in the modern world. This handy, easy to use 1 page moon calendar is a simple way to try this for yourself to observe increased germination rates and plan your gardening guided by the moon phases. The calendar wheel is a perpetual calendar meaning it can be used year on year by simply observing the dates provided on the Moon Gardening Calendar website.

Be sure to check out and order your Moon Gardening Calendar and observe the results for yourself!

Where you can find all things Muddy Boots!

Website: https://www.muddyboots.net.au/
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Spring/Summer jobs in the edible garden. Plenty to do this time of year in our edible gardens!

Where you can find all things Muddy Boots!

Website: https://www.muddyboots.net.au/
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Our monthly Q&A. Answering our listeners questions and awarding a prize from The Plant Runner for the person who we thought asked the best one! 

Many thanks to our segment sponsor 'The Plant Runner', we love these products and are thrilled to have them on board! Check them out: www.theplantrunner.com 

Where you can find all things Muddy Boots!

Website: https://www.muddyboots.net.au/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/muddybootspodcast/
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Planting fire resilient plants, is it possible?

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Website: https://www.muddyboots.net.au/
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Perennial borders, what are they?

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Growing the revival flower, Dahlias.

Where you can find all things Muddy Boots!

Website: https://www.muddyboots.net.au/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/muddybootspodcast/
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Our monthly Q&A. Answering our listeners questions and awarding a prize from The Plant Runner for the person who we thought asked the best one! 

Many thanks to our segment sponsor 'The Plant Runner', we love these products and are thrilled to have them on board! Check them out: www.theplantrunner.com

Where you can find all things Muddy Boots!

Website: https://www.muddyboots.net.au/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/muddybootspodcast/
Facebook: Muddy Boots Podcast | Facebook

When to water your plants, inside and out.

Where you can find all things Muddy Boots!

Website: https://www.muddyboots.net.au/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/muddybootspodcast/
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