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Sunday, 20 December
2:01 pm20 Dec 2009
julian via Tropical Gardening20 Dec 2009
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Organic mealy bug repellent

In the previous post I identified the Papaya mealy bug - Paracoccus Marginatus on our papaya.So - I checked out what are the possible organic responses and found some good resources:PAN Germany: Describes the uses of chiliGolden Harvest Organics: A list of insects and pests, and appropriate organic...

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Thursday, 24 September
2:59 pm24 Sep 2009
julian via Tropical Gardening24 Sep 2009
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Grasshopper in the organic mint

One of the problems with organic gardening is that you can't just give a blast of insecticide or herbicide from time to time to reduce pests. So far, we haven't had any major problem, so touch wood that continues.Often in the morning I cut some organic mint to make some lovely tea - mint tea is very nice...

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Tuesday, 8 September
11:55 am8 Sep 2009
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Spider eats a mantis

The other day, while harvesting some of our chillies, WW spotted thisIt seems like some member of the Mantidae family went into the wrong neighbourhood...Normally I welcome spiders gobbling up insects, but maybe in this case it's less good, as apparently Mantises can be good for organic farming because...

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Monday, 23 March
9:50 am23 Mar 2009
julian via Tropical Gardening23 Mar 2009
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myBlogS 2009 - Malaysian Blog Survey

I have not been updating for a while - not because our garden has stopped growing, but because I'm well busy with thisIt's for my research into the monetisation of Malaysian blogs - I'm doing an anthropology PhD on the Malaysian blogosphere, focusing on how monetisation is affecting blogs, bloggers, and...

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