SUMMER
Your Gardening Guide for December
WARM REGION
SUMMER
Your Gardening Guide for December
WARM REGION
Welcome to December!
December is here which marks the start of summer. It’s a time of festivities, summer BBQ’s and spending more time outdoors.
Follow these summer gardening tips if you wish to have more time for your loved ones while keeping your garden resilient against the intense summer heat.
December Top Tips
#1 Sweet corn
Plant some sweet corn in your garden. Sow them in blocks rather than single rows for effective pollination.
#2 Last chance
There’s still time for planting cucurbits -pumpkin, watermelon, rockmelon, squash and cucumber. They perform well growing on a trellis which looks impressive and is a great space-saver.
#3 Fertilise
It’s a good time to give things a bit of a feed to encourage strong, vigorous plants. Compost and seaweed teas or organic liquid fertilisers are great for quick uptake of nutrients.
#4 Attract insects
Attract pollinators and beneficial insects to your patch by planting heat-loving annual flowers- cosmos, verbena, petunias, marigolds, phlox and celosia are colourful and are a favourite of these welcome visitors.
October Essentials
Get some hot tips and tricks for garden success this October, from pricking out, to seed saving rules as well as planting edible tubers.
Watch nowDiggers top pest tips
Caterpillars
Monitor your cabbage or broccoli for caterpillars. Spray both sides of the leaves with Dipel to protect them.
Learn more about caterpillar
Aphids
Aphids attack new growth on veggies, ornamentals & roses. Squash, hose off or use Eco-oil
Learn more about Aphids
Scale
Scale forms clusters of white or brown lumps on rose stems. Control with Neem oil or by pruning off badly affected growth.
Learn more about Scale insectsDiggers recommends
Diggers top garden idea
Plant companion plants
Plant companion plants like marigolds, cosmos and sunflowers to add interest and colour to your vegie patch and act as beneficial insect attractors.
Productive pot plants
Give the gift that keeps on giving, A productive pot plants: chillies, cherry tomatoes, citrus, olives or a mixed herb pot.
Get planting
Not too late to plant watermelon, bananas, magos and passionfruit.
Diggers recommends
Diggers recommends
Rockdust
$37.50
Fruit & Citrus Fertiliser 2kg
$37.50
The Bee Friendly Seed Collection
$23.80
Get ready for January
Coming soon!