Page 10 - Welcome Home Magazine August 2021

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GARDENING TIPS

Do you have a green thumb?
Gardening is not only a great stress relief, but a well-maintained garden is a simple way to up the
market value of your property.
In August it’s time to plant It’s time to sow

• Certified seed potatoes • Direct where they are to be grown seed of peas
• Jerusalem artichokes (including delicious snow peas)
• Shallots • Broad beans
• Garlic cloves • Turnips
• Off-sets (suckers) of globe artichokes (for tasty • Swedes
food and brilliant flowers). • Asian brassicas
• Divisions of chives • English spinach and onions.
• rhubarb and asparagus crowns • In warm, well-drained soil or containers sow:
• Sturdy young seedlings of cabbage, cauliflower, silverbeet, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and
celery, broccoli, lettuce, onion and leeks. lettuce seeds.

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