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South Australia - June 1999 |
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Select
the date from the list shown below for this months tip
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June 7th
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We’re now in onion time. Yes time to
plant onions, chives, garlic-chives and you guessed it… good old rot-your-socks-off
garlic.
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June 14th |
Now that the grapevines have dropped all their
leaves, it’s time to start pruning and you have about seven weeks in which to do it,
so you can plan you weekends. Any later than that and the sap of some early varieties will
start moving and the pruning cuts will weep. |
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June 21st
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Do you realise that indoor plants remove
hazardous substances from the air in your house or office? Well the NASA Space Research
program has been testing a wide range of indoor plants for over 25 years and the results
are quite compelling. |
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June 28th
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On composting myths exploded, yes you can
compost gum leaves. Nature’s been doing it for millennia, it just takes a bit longer
than lawn clippings and Plane Tree leaves. Composting large quantities of gum leaves can
be sped up by running them through a shredder or lining them up on your lawn and running
the mower over them.
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