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Just as nature intended

6/7/2013

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By Linda Gordon

​BASS Coast Shire is lagging behind other municipalities and its more environmentally minded residents when it comes to planting out nature strips.


South Dudley’s Helen Searle and Richard Kentwell have been disappointed with the council’s reaction to the fruit and veggies they carefully planted in front of their Station Street home.


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Sweet taste of success

3/11/2012

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PictureThe "Tomato Man", Steve Morant
By Catherine Watson

THE ladies are talking fascinators, the punters are talking odds, the best horses in the country are raring to go. It can mean only one thing … time to put in the tomatoes.

Melbourne Cup Day, the first Tuesday in November, is traditionally the day when home gardeners take a calculated punt and plant out their tomato seedlings, trusting that the odds of a late frost are now at least 100-1.


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