WINTER
Your Gardening Guide for June
SUBTROPICAL REGION
WINTER
Your Gardening Guide for June
SUBTROPICAL REGION
Welcome to June!
Just because the temperatures are dropping doesn’t mean your gardening adventures have to end! Embrace the unique beauty and tranquillity of the winter season with our expert tips, premium products, and inspiring ideas.
June Top Tips
#1 Plant Asian greens
Plant or sow Asian greens, asparagus crowns, brassicas and silverbeet.
#2 Compost
Start a compost heap with crops that are past their best. Chooks love these too.
#3 Tomatoes
Plant winter tomatoes. Cherry varieties are the best and can be grown in pots.
#4 Mulch
Continue to mulch garden beds to reduce weeding.
Diggers top pest tips
Rust fungus
Frangipani are losing their leaves, which often carry the rust fungus. Collect fallen leaves and bag and bin to prevent reinfection.
Wildlife
Put chicken wire or vegetable garden nets over strawberry patch to prevent the local wildlife from getting your ripening strawberries before you do.
Weeding
Cool season weeds are active, removing by hand will prevent multiplication and bigger problems later on.
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Diggers top garden ideas
Attract beneficial insects and pollinators
Sow alyssum, nasturtium, pansy, viola, amaranthus, celosia, lobelia, cleome, salvia, coleus, verbena, petunia, dianthus, eschscholtzia, snapdragon now to provide some colour and attract beneficial insects and pollinators.
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Strawberries
Strawberries will be starting to fruit, mulch around the plants with a loose dry straw mulch to keep fruit clean and dry off the ground.
pH testing
pH test vegetable and flower beds, using results to guide soil conditioning.
Plants to plant now
Now is a great time to plant winter tomatoes and subtropical bulbs such as blood lily, eucomis, alstroemeria and hippeastrum.
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