Greenfingers’ - July '99 Seasonal Tips for Adelaide, South Australia


	South Australia - July 1999
	Select the date from the list shown below for this months tip
	July 5^th	With all the recent rain and the cold weather, we are now in the perfect season to plant deciduous fruit and nut trees, vines, roses, berry crops and deciduous flowering shrubs, all of which are most economically purchased as open-rooted or bare rooted plants.
	July 12^th	As the garden lies relatively dormant right now, it’s worth reflecting on some of the natural help we could get to reduce our dependence on sprays, especially for insect and snail control. Too much emphasis is placed on ‘friendly sprays’ by many gardeners, when we have so many other options. The couple I mention this week are winter dormant, but then so are most of our garden predators too!
	July 19^th	It’s pruning time and if you haven’t started then you’d better plan it this weekend. The sap is still dormant on the grapevines, roses and fruit trees, but if we get too many sunny days like we’ve had recently, that will change rapidly. After spraying make sure you spray with a protective fungicide, like Bordeaux mixture or Kocide®. While the citrus don’t need pruning for anything other than shape, you need to spray with PestOil™ to take out the scale and citrus leaf miner.
	July 26^th	Our Matilda Poppies will flower for the first time this week, if the rain leaves them standing, but that’s three weeks later then someone in Annie’s office, who takes my weekly advice. Annie wants to know why. It’s not good enough that they flower for four months, but they now have to be first. So I need to explain... save face if you like.