|
Home Page
| |
|
South Australia - December 2000 |
|
Select
the date from the list shown below for this months tip |
|
4th Dec
|
One
of the gardeners’ cruelest afflictions in this area has to be seasonal
hayfever and it’s the wind pollinating plants that are the biggest villains:
Cupressus, Pines, including Callitris the "Native Pine", Silver Birch,
Ash, Plane, Elm, Privet, most Wattles, dryland Eucalypts, Melaleucas,
Callistemon, Sheoaks and of course “Salvation Jane”.
|
|
11th Dec |
If
your Apricots have small brown scab marks on them and the leaves have tiny holes
in them, they are effected with the bacterial disease called ‘Shot-hole’,
but it’s too late to go spraying them with Kocide™ this year. Better to just
stew them or dry them. The taste is not effected, just the yield and the looks.
|
|
18th Dec
|
What
a scorcher we’ve had recently. It brings the fruit on to ripen faster too, so
it’s smart to pick some while still quite firm and after ripen it in doors,
rather than have it all ripen and possibly fall to the ground at once.
|
|
|
Christmas
Day |
Greenfingers
has been accused of bragging about his fruit yield on the miniature
nectarines and peaches in pots, by some who thought it a bit cute that I
should be wanting to ‘thin’ the crop. It seems that not everyone
achieves my results.
|
|
