Special Focus on Vegetables &
Herbs
Home-grown vegetables and
herbs are flavoursome additions to all meals but often present
frustrating challenges to
gardeners.
We'd like to help. Here are some suggestions about ways to
encourage healthy growth and bountiful fruiting - whether your
plants are growing in open gardens or in planter
boxes.
| What do you want to do? |
Ways to achieve your goal |
How Scotts® can help |
| Prepare a bed for vegetables. |
- Choose a sunny location. Most vegetables need full sun.
- Eliminate weeds & grass with herbicide.
- Dig the soil over well.
- Mix in fertiliser and about 5% organic material such as
compost.
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Roundup® Ready to Use weed killer will kill off
weeds without poisoning the
soil.
Controlled release Osmocote®
Vegetable, Tomato, Herb & Garden Beds contains all the
nutrients vegetables
need.
Osmocote®
Plus Organics Vegetable & Herb Mix will improve the health
and fertility of the
soil.
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Plant seeds or
seedlings.
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- Water well beforehand. Do not allow soil to dry out.
- Plant seedlings at the appropriate time of year and seeds at
the depth recommended.
- Handle seedlings with care to prevent damage to roots.
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Watering is very
important.
Osmocote® potting
mixes include a wetting agent to optimise watering but if your
planting mix does not include a wetting agent, consider adding
Hydraflo2® Wetting
Agent.
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Encourage flowering and
fruiting.
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Apply a soluble fertiliser regularly once buds begin to
appear.
Plants such as tomatoes, capsicums, beans, peas, eggplant,
marrows, pumpkins & cucumbers need bees to pollinate the
flowers. Grow brightly coloured flowers near
by.
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Miracle-Gro®
MaxFeed Tomato & Vegetables Plant Food is designed
specifically for tomatoes and all types of
vegetables.
MaxFeed can be applied with a watering can or with the Miracle-Gro® Garden
Feeder.
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Grow
herbs
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Grow herbs in among vegetables or as edging plants for the
vegetable
garden.
For convenience, herbs can be readily grown in
pots.
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Herbs do not require large amounts of
fertiliser.
A modest application of Osmocote®
Vegetable, Tomato, Herb & Garden Beds will generally
suffice.
Osmocote®
Plus Organics Vegetable & Herb Mix is perfect for the
vegies and herbs that you grow in pots or
tubs.
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Deal with
pests.
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- Pick off and squash grubs such as caterpillars and snails if
only a few are present.
- Use a low toxicity pesticide to kill insects.
- Use snail pellets to kill snails and slugs.
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Defender™ Pyrethrum Insect
Spray is safe to use on vegetables and
herbs.
Defender™ Snail &
Slug Pellets can be used safely in vegetable & herb
gardens.
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