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As it turns out they are pretty serious and need to be tended to.

The Nursery. Lots of baby gall wasps hatching away in here

Citrus Gall wasps

They appear to lay their eggs in young fresh stems from August on. The growths are the young hatching and need to be cut off and burnt or wrapped in plastic and throw into the garbage. All sources state to not put into your compost!

I guess I best cut these out now, and monitor much more closely come spring this year.

You can see the small pin prick holes that they can get out of.

A guide from NSW Primary Industries on growing Lemons looks reasonable too

http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/137723/11-lemon-pests.pdf This guide particularly identifies all the different types of pest and disease that affect Lemon in Australia. Will now have to research organic types of treatments.

Resources:

I love this fact sheet, with humour:

http://www.sgaonline.org.au/info_citrus_gall_wasp.html

http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/aboutus/services/collections/scientific-illustrations/zeck/citrus-gall-wasp

http://gardenworld.net.au/gardenworld/2009/06/citrus-gall-wasp-causes-lumps-in-the-lemon-tree.html

At present I am still trying to dispute these facts that I have become aware of, and so far have been unable.

Is this as good for our health as we are told?

The information I have to hand is that 90% of all garlic in Australia is imported. While that in itself is of concern in regards to how good it can be transported from afar, the main issue is ho wit is fumigated during quarantine.

Every bulb is fumigated with Methyl Bromide, purported to be one of the deadliest chemica

l – it is a poison.

A description provided in The Australian Fruit & Vegetabel Garden (Clice

Blazey and Jane Varkulevicius) puts it as …”a biological nuclear bomb, it kills weeds, insects and bacterias etc, rendering soils sterile and lifeless. …”

Not as young as I once was, I feel I may have heard of this before. Yet I haven’t.

I would think that as consumers there is a certain degree of knowledge we need in determining what we eat, and how it arrives at our doors.

I am going to continue to update this article with some of the research I am doing into the topic….

more to come

It only took 2.5 hours and just over $120 to make from scratch, and now has the capacity and aeration needed to start building a decent compost supply.

more to come…

About 2/3 of the way through

All finished, not bad for an office worker