WINTER
Your Gardening Guide for June
TROPICAL REGION
WINTER
Your Gardening Guide for June
TROPICAL 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 Mulch
Mulch to maintain soil moisture and water as needed.
#2 Organic matter
Raise garden beds by incorporating organic matter into your soil to improve drainage during the wet..
#3 Sow climbing peas
Sow climbing peas. Try growing 'Yukomo Giant' if you love snow peas. 'Sugar Snap' is always popular and climbers provide a bumper harvest.
#4 Tackle landscaping
Carry out all hard landscaping tasks while the weather is dry.
Diggers top pests 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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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.
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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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pH testing
pH test vegetable and flower beds, using results to guide soil conditioning.
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