SPRING
Your Gardening Guide for September
TROPICAL REGION
SPRING
Your Gardening Guide for September
TROPICAL REGION
Welcome to September!
September Jobs
#1 Mulch
Mulching your garden beds helps to reduce weeds as well as keeping valuable water in your soils.
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Shade sensitive crops on hot days and from mid season onward.
#3 Tidy up
Tidy up overgrown plants, remove dead growth and shape your shrubs and small trees.
Learn more#4 Fertilise
Fertilise citrus and fruit trees and passionfruit vines with fruit and citrus food.
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Sap suckers
Keep an eye on ants in your fruit trees as they may signal the presence of sap suckers like aphids and mealy bug. If present, spray eco-oil.
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Snails and slugs
Control snail and slugs by staying vigilant. Do weekly assessments and treatments to help you to get on top of them.
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Diggers top garden ideas
Plant in your garden
Plant summer crops like basil, capsicum, carrot, cucumber, eggplant, pumpkin, sweet corn and tomatoes. Now's also a great time to plant ginger, okra, and sweet potatoes.
Summer crops
Harvest custard apple, star apple, pawpaw, citrus, bananas, avocado, chocolate sapote, sunflowers, radishes, leafy greens and corn.
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