SUMMER
Your Gardening Guide for January
SUBTROPICAL REGION
SUMMER
Your Gardening Guide for January
SUBTROPICAL REGION
Welcome to January!
While the hot summer heat can slow us down, your garden can still thrive with just a few small, mindful tasks. See below our top tips that will encourage your garden to flourish in the summer sun.
January Top Tips
#1 Prune
Prune summer fruiting raspberries after fruiting. Cut out all old, woody, fruited stems right down to ground level.
#2 Plant
Try putting in some fruit trees such as guava, mango, jackfruit, lychee and mangosteen.
#3 Support
Your climbing vegetables like climbing beans, cucumbers and tomatoes will need to be continually trained and tied as the grow on trellises, support structures or wires.
#4 Protection
Fruit trees can be covered with bird-netting to protect the fruit. Branches laden with fruit may need propping up if they look too heavy.
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.
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Scale
Spray shrubs, vines, containerised plants, succulents and cycads with horticultural oil now. Apply three times, leaving 3 weeks between applications, controls scale and mealybug.
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Citrus Leaf Miners
Citrus leaf miner on citrus trees are a common problem over summer and mainly target new growth. Tell-tale sigs are curled and distorted leaves with silver trails on them. Eco oil may be helpful on early leaf flushes and snip off all affected leaves and bin them.
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Aphids
Watch out for aphids, scale & ants. This trio are linked together. They suck the juice from citrus and many other trees & plants with new leaf growth. Attract ladybirds and hoverflies to your garden with beneficial plantings: dill, fennel, Queen Anne's lace, cosmos
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Diggers top garden idea

Plant annual flowers
Plant annual flowering seedlings that can handle full sun so you keep your garden looking great right into autumn.
Shop nowPlants to plant now
Lettuce can be grown at the tail end of January but consider putting them under a shade cloth tent.
A second planting of silverbeet will give you extra plants to see you though the winter when production slows down

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