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Life&Style | NOV/DEC 2021

Spring

has arrived

Here are some tips to get your

garden looking gorgeous!

SPRING IS the season T Sow or plant beetroot,
of rejuvenation. Warmer lettuce, radish, silverbeet,
temperatures are calling bulbs spring onions and warrigal AN EASY GUIDE are ideal for novice
to action, stimulating new greens. Stagger sowing two TO GROWING gardeners. Just scatter
leaf growth, and encouraging weeks apart for a longer VEGIES the seeds and rake the
seedlings to sprout. This is season. surface lightly.
the time to get out in the Growing your own veg
T If you’re not quite ready T In frost-prone areas,
garden and take charge of all is a wonderful way to
that activity. to plant, dig holes now and stay healthy. Follow start cold-sensitive
fill them with compost, food these tips for planting plants indoors to help
T Kick-start spring growth scraps and other organic them grow strongly
success, from soil to
by feeding everything with a materials. Sprinkle a little seeds and more. while the soil outside
slow-release organic fertiliser. blood and bone on top and warms up. Sow seeds in
Aged chook and cow manures water well to make pockets T If you don’t have pots or toilet rolls and
are great or make a seaweed of nutrients to plant into next good soil, compost place them on a well-lit
brew. Clear out your compost month. is the universal soil windowsill.
and spread it around. Water improver. Dig it in
T Give the aphids a blast of T If you’re growing
and mulch well. before each new
soap or pyrethrum spray and, vegetables from
crop is planted, and
T Prune winter – and early when nothing else is handy, over time, it will make seedlings, it’s not
spring – flowering plants such squash them or spray with a always the best value
digging simple and
as diosma and chaenomeles sharp jet of water from the food growing more to buy the tallest ones.
(flowering quince) as they finish hose. Inspect susceptible While seedlings are
successful.
flowering. Even if you don’t plants regularly and repeat still small – as long as
have time to do anything else, controls every four to five T Vegies from the they are big enough
make sure you snip or pinch off days. cabbage family, from to handle – they are
dead and dying flowers. This Asian greens to radish, likely to grow faster and
is a very simple way to tell the are so easy to grow suffer less transplant
plant to flower more! from seed that they shock.

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