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Planting

Still a good time to plant flowers and vegetables!

• Plant zucchini, pumpkin, beans, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, leeks, lettuce, sweet corn, cucumbers.
• Plant herbs
• Plant autumn flowering bulbs such as sternbergia, belladonna lilies, colchicum.
• Plant impatiens, celosia, bedding begonia, French marigold, zinnia, salvia, sunflower, torenia, verbena in early summer.

Fertilising

• Fertilise the whole garden and add soil wetting agent at the same time with Osmocote® TOTAL All Purpose
• Fertilise phosphorus sensitive native plants such as grevilleas, waratahs, hardenbergias with Osmocote® Plus Native Gardens
• Use Miracle-Gro® Tomato Plant Food on all vegetables and especially tomatoes to help prevent blossom-end rot.

Pruning

• Prune camellias and azaleas lightly where needed in early summer.
• Keep hedges pruned – often and lightly.
• Summer prune apricot trees. Click here for detailed information on pruning all kinds of fruit trees.
• Continue to dead-head all summer annuals & perennials, and summer-flowering shrubs including roses.  Give the plants a boost with one of the fast-acting Miracle-Gro® Water Soluble Plant Foods

Lawncare

• Help to make lawns and gardens more water absorbent by applying Hydraflo2® Wetting Agent.
• Prepare lawns for the hot dry months by fertilising in early December with Lawn Builder™ with Wetting Agent. Well- fed lawns are better able to cope with drought stress.

Controlling garden pests

• Protect summer vegetables against caterpillars, thrips, aphids, whitefly and other soft-bodied insect pests with Defender™ Pyrethrum Insect Spray
• Mites can do a lot of damage to ornamental plants. Try Defender™ Bug-B-Gon which is also effective and long-lasting against a wide range of other pests.
• Watch out for black spot on roses. Spraying with diluted milk powder may be effective, or a fungicide may be needed.

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