Garden guide: August - Hot Region

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Your Gardening Guide for August

HOT REGION

WINTER

Your Gardening Guide for August

HOT REGION

Welcome to August!
As winter fades and spring slowly approaches, your garden is brimming with potential. It's the perfect month to start preparing for the vibrant season ahead. Expect to see the first signs of new growth as the days gradually get warmer and longer. Your garden's transformation starts now!

FLOWER SEEDS TO SOW IN AUGUST

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VEGIE SEEDS TO SOW IN AUGUST

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August Top Tips

#1 Improve soils

Apply a layer of mulch and/or compost around the base of your fruit trees to improve soils and water retention.

#2 Blueberries

Plant blueberries. They are an incredible fruiting plant and highly rewarding. Grow in pots to provide the ideal growing environment.

#3 General tasks

It’s time for a general garden tidy. Place green waste in your compost and apply blood and bone to energise your compost.

#4 Spray stone fruit

Spray stone fruit with a copper based spray to prevent leaf curl.

Diggers top pest tips

Mealy bugs

Monitor your crops for mealy bugs.

Weeding

Weed your garden beds to remove competition.

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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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