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- It’s Petunia-pulling time and although you may still have a reasonable display in
your bedding scheme, the longer they are left there and the longer it is before your
Pansies are planted to poorer your display will be. These few weeks of warm soil add
months to the display in late winter and spring.
- Of course there are some folk who are able to interplant the new Pansies amongst the
aging petunias, then in three weeks pull the Petunias and the Pansies have hardened up and
they are away. They technique requires liberal top dressing and some careful hand tillage
to work, so if you have the time try it by all means, but for most it’s slash and eh
…compost the summer crop all in one go. Let’s face it no one burns these days!
- If you use those organic pellets, like Dynamic lifter®, which is enriched composted
chicken litter or Neutrog’s Rapid Raiser™ which is composted and enriched
chicken carcasses or maybe the new Gardening Australia Organic Power that’s a Lucerne
pellet, they all break down to provide plant food and a good nutrient buffer much faster
over the next three weeks, than they will in winter, due to the warmer soil right now.
- In the vegetable garden and herb garden it’s time to sow rocket, that’s great
for spicing up salads and matures so quickly, sow parsley, coriander and if you have a
sandy site, carrots. On heavy soil, sow seed of spring onion, cauliflower, cabbage and
broccoli or if really impatient, plant seedlings. I hesitate to recommend planting
Brussels Sprouts on any aspect other than in frosty creek beds near the foothills.
- If you have heeded my earlier advice about spelling the Cyclamen over summer under a
tree down the back, it’s now time to go and retrieve it, as they are ready to spring
back into growth, with this mild weather and moist soil.
- I notice that Salvation Jane, Milk Thistles and Soursobs, are all on the move at the
moment, so you need to contain them or they can soon gain the upper hand. I’d just
chip them off at present. Soursobs require more effort if you really aim for control, but
gee a weekly chip, soon checks their resolve, without resorting to sprays.
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