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What To Do This Week (Page 5 of 11)
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Spread compost over your entire garden to enrich soil. We like a 4 inch layer of cow manure.After magnolias have flowered it is important to give them a feed. Our special recipe includes: 5 bags of cow manure, 3 cups of Dolomite, 3 cup of blood and bone & 3 cups of Sulfate of Potash. Spread this out around your magnolia drip...
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Protect new plants from frost this week by ...* rigging up protective hessian enclosures around frost senstive plants* where possible, bring any frost sensitive potted plants inside or place on a covered balcony or veranda* cover frost senstive plants with a thick layer of sugarcane mulch or garden straw Plant...camellias and...
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* Spread compost over your garden to enrich soil. * Sprinkle wood ash over the garden to promote flowering.* Rake up fallen camellia flowers and place them onto garden beds. They will inhibit the grown of the lawn if left.* Feed your garden with pelletised manure. * Last opportunity to prune roses, except for those in extreme co...
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Time for tubers: Plant potato tubers. Allow the 'eyes' to develop before planting into a sunny spot with well-composted soil. Fertilise with Seasol Earthcare PowerFeed regularly. Mound the soil up over the emerging growth when it reaches 10cm. Repeat then allow to grow. Harvest when the mature foliage starts to die back....
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Prune roses in temperate gardens. In cold areas with heavy frost wait until late August.Lift perennials, divide root system with sharp spade, renovate the soil with compost or soil conditioner then replant root divisions.Plant Bare-rotted deciduous fruit trees. Plant roses, pansies, polyanthus, geranium, winter vege...
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