SUMMER
Your Gardening Guide for January
SUBTROPICAL REGION
SUMMER
Your Gardening Guide for January
SUBTROPICAL REGION
Welcome to January!
January Jobs
#1 Check
Check containerised plants, annuals & vegetables for watering daily.
#2 Fruit fly damage
Be vigilant in collecting fruit fly-infested fruit off the ground to prevent the grubs from populating in a new generation of flies.
#3 Mulch
Mulch garden beds to supress germinating weeds.
#4 Weeding
Hand weeding now will stop weeds setting seed.
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.
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Plants 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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