WINTER
Your Gardening Guide for August
HOT REGION
WINTER
Your Gardening Guide for August
HOT REGION
Welcome to August!
August Jobs
#1 Improve soils
Prepare your tomato growing beds by improving soils with organic compost, pelletised chook poo and covering with straw mulch.
#2 Mulch
Time to reapply mulch to keep the soil warm and retain moisture in the soil around the roots.
Learn more#3 Prune
Water smarter at this time of year. Check your soil moisture and if a bit dry, water first thing in the morning and give a good soaking hose twice a week if a bit dry.
#4 Tool care
In these cooler months, time to give your tools some love- sharpen, clean, oil and maintain your garden tools. Practising tool hygiene will prevent the spread of disease.
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Mealy bugs
Monitor your crops for mealy bugs.
Caterpillars
Monitor crops for cabbage white butterfly and their caterpillars on fresh green growth.
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Diggers top garden ideas
Green manure
Can plant a green manure crop to add some nutrients back into your patch,crops like wheat, lablab or chickpea sown now will help improve soils especially before planting heavy feeders in spring.
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Attract pollinators and beneficial insects
Plant some flowering nasturtium, petunias, marigolds, celosia now to attract pollinators and beneficial insects to your patch.
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