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GARDEN
Vegetables
• Sow carrots, lettuce, onions, spinach, Sugar Snap
peas and broad beans.
• Plant punnets of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, broccoflower,
cabbage, cauliflower and silverbeet.
• Avoid club-root by rotating crops so that members
of the brassica family are not grown in the same area more
than 1 year in 3. To further reduce club-root problems make
up a solution of Potassium Permanganate and pour a litre into
each planting hole.
• After planting out seedlings, mulch with Tui’s
Pelletised Pea Straw and water in with liquid fertiliser.
• Large overcrowded rhubarb crowns (older than 3 years)
can be dug up and divided.
• Sow any area that will be left vacant over winter,
especially if your garden loses the sun in winter, with a
green crop of mustard or blue lupin.
• Protect young seedlings from snails and slugs with
Tui Quash.
• Hoe regularly to prevent competition from weeds.
Fruit
• Plan winter planting of new trees, vines and berryfruits
• Select varieties and place orders to ensure supply.
• Prepare the ground with added organic matter such
as compost and sheep pellets or Yates Dynamic Lifter.
Ornamental Garden
General
• More regular rainfall means more weeds that need to
be removed from the flower garden and under hedges.
• Cut back spent blooms from summer perennials.
• Plant out seedlings of pansy, polyanthus, primula,
poppies and violas for winter and spring colour.
• The large daisy flowers of calendula or pot marigold
will provide bright colour over a long season in winter.
• Gather fallen autumn leaves from lawns and garden
areas to add to compost.
Bulbs
• Plant daffodils in rich well-drained soil at a depth
of about twice the size of the bulb.
• Naturalise in large drifts in areas of lawn. Remember
that it is important to leave these areas unmown until the
foliage has dried off, even if this does look messy.
• Heavy soils should be improved by incorporating gritty
material such as sand prior to planting or plant in bulb mix.
• Miniature daffodils make charming container subjects.
Plant in bulb mix. Look for Narcissus bulbicodum, N. ‘Jet
Fire’, N. ‘Tete a Tete’, N. ‘Highfield
Beauty’, N. ‘Golden Perfection’ and the
delightful white N. ‘Thalia’.
• Blend a dressing of bulb food into the soil when planting.
Lawns
• Keep clear of fallen autumn leaves.
• Feed established lawns with organic Yates Dynamic
Lifter for Lawns or Yates Lawn Master Slow Release Lawn Food.
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• Reinvigorate an entire lawn by vigorous raking to
remove thatching followed by very close mowing and covering
the entire area with Tui Lawn Preparation Mix. Reseed as per
packet instructions. |
