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South Australia - April 2000 |
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the date from the list shown below for this months tip |
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3rd April
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A visitor recently asked me how to kill Ivy
climbing up a much-admired street tree in the general vicinity of their house, but not in
front of it. Either way I guess you have to enter into a dialogue with your local Council.
After all it is their liability, which is why you need permission to plant a verge in
front of your own property. |
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10th April
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With the early leaf fall of so many of our
lovely deciduous street trees in this area it’s a bonus time to collect some from the
gutters to compost. It saves the council drains from leaf choke when it next rains and
keeps our waterways flowing a little more easily, plus they make very good compost. |
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17th April
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If you grow Chrysanthemums, it’s still
not too late to feed them with a potassium rich fertilizer, to swell their flowers over
the next six weeks. I’d recommend potassium sulphate rather than a water-soluble
balanced fertiliser, because that might put on too much leaf growth and that’s the
last thing you want. |
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24th April
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I got a note two weeks ago about a
reader’s "Snail Vine" Vigna carracalla not setting seed. Good to
hear. Mine don’t either and I was getting concerned, but a look around the district
and none of them do, so obviously there is an insect vector in Venezuela at 1500 metres
which we don’t have, that aids their pollination. They set seed in New Zealand
though! Named after the villainous third century AD Roman Emperor who wore a similar hood
to this flower. How’s that for obscure? |
