Dear Reader, We wish you all the best for the festive season and offer some helpful tips to help get your vegie garden in top shape for Summer!

Most summer vegetables are now ripening, but you can extend your harvest by planting or sowing a second crop now, for picking in late summer or autumn. Use Osmocote Vegetable, Tomato, Herb & Garden Beds when preparing the soil - water penetrates better and soils stay moist for longer, placing less stress on plants growing in the full sun. Strong healthy plants produce the best crops, as well as being able to resist pests and diseases better. Keep plants growing well by watering every ten days with Miracle-Gro MaxFeed Tomato & Vegetables, which has added calcium to prevent Blossom-End Rot in tomatoes and other fungal diseases. Water the vegie plot, plus vegies and herbs in pots, early in the morning before the sun's on them. This gives them plenty of time to take up moisture before the day gets too warm. Watering in the middle of the day when the sun is overhead may cause burn spots on leaves and fruits. On extremely hot days a second, recuperative watering may be needed in the evening. If you're going away and are worried about how the vegie garden will survive in your absence, make sure to water deeply a day or so before departure. Then immediately mulch well with a natural product such as sugarcane mulch to a depth of about 8 - 10cm if the garden and pots are not already mulched, or top it up if you mulched earlier in the season.

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