Need help with planting & fertilising?
Learn about planting techniques and avoid common mistakes like
making planting holes either too shallow or too deep, adding
compost or manure to the base of the planting hole, putting
fertiliser in the base of the planting hole or not watering the
soil around the new plant as well as the plant itself.
Know your plants.
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How Scotts® can help |
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Prepare a planting hole.
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- Dig a dish-shaped planting hole no deeper than the root ball of
the plant but three times as wide.
- Mix fertiliser and organic material (about 5%) with the
backfill.
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Mix an Osmocote® controlled
release fertiliser into the top two-thirds of the backfill.
Choose a suitable product from the Osmocote range.
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Plant bare-rooted plants including roses.
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- Make a mound in the centre of a wide dish shaped hole.
- Drape the roots of the plants on either side of the mound.
- Mix fertiliser and organic material (about 5%) with the
backfill.
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Mix Osmocote
Roses, Gardenias, Azaleas & Camellias to the top two-thirds
of the backfill.
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Set up an efficient watering program.
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- Water immediately after planting and then regularly for the
first 3 months - do this for drought tolerant plants also.
- Always water before and after fertilising.
- Water when the top two centimetres of the soil or potting mix
are dry.
- Use a wetting agent.
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Use a wetting agent to help water soak into the soil evenly.
Most Scotts® products contain a professional grade wetting
agent. Choose the one that best suits your purpose.
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Choose a good fertiliser for your garden.
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- Use a controlled release fertiliser every 6 months for a steady
release of a complete fertiliser.
- Use a water soluble fertiliser every 7-14 days to give rapid
results.
- Combine your controlled release fertiliser with a soluble
fertiliser occasionally to give your plants an extra boost.
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Use Osmocote Total All Purpose
controlled release fertiliser or choose a specific-purpose
fertiliser from the Osmocote® range.
Miracle-Gro® MaxFeed Plant
Food products are water soluble fertilisers that can be used
alone or in combination with Osmocote fertilisers.
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Fertilise effectively.
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- Fertilise throughout spring, early summer and autumn - don't
feed in winter when plants are not actively growing.
- Water before and after fertilising.
- Apply fertiliser at the dripline and outwards. (The dripline is
an imaginary line drawn from the outer edge of the canopy of leaves
to the ground.)
- Don't over-fertilise. Use fertiliser at the recommended
rate.
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Osmocote controlled release fertilisers are designed to prevent
over-fertilisation.
Find out how Osmocote works.
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