Do not use chemical sprays once temperature reaches 28 degrees, or you will burn your plants. Best time is early evening, once the sun has set. Water your plants and not your garden. Give each plant a watering can full of diluted seaweed solution once a week in very hot weather. ...
· Water tall bearded iris to encourage flower stems.· Deep water roses and spring flowering shrubs.· Mulch all gardens with thick layer of organic matter. Choose from lucerne hay, sugar cane, tea tree, composted leaf litter and grass clippings and cocopeat.· Plant summer flowers…Petunia, marigo...
Mulch everywhere this week if you haven't done so already - lightly scratch the soil surface, apply a wetting agent then top with 75-100 mm of mulch. Stake the taller-growing tomatoes, they should be coming along nicely now - check is you have an virus and remove any yellowing leaves. Keep feeding with liquid feed such ...
Mulching Essential at this time of year is a thick layer of any organic material over your garden beds will conserve moisture, stop the weeds and keep plant roots cooler. Choose from Lucerne, sugar cane, tea-tree, pelletised paper or Coco peat (coconut fibre) Heat Stress Plants such as hydrangea and impatiens need careful attent...
Yes, its that time of year again, where fragile or newly planted plants become scorched in the few hot days during summer. Don't despair, here's our tips to get them green and growing again.Firstly decide how bad the scorch and burn is, choose a number between 1 and 10 (10 being total destruction of all foliage). The treatment d...
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