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South Australia - September 2001 |
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3rd
Sept.
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Unley City Council residents have a double blue 110
litre mobile garbage bin (MGB) for household rubbish and use a grey 240 litre
MGB for green organics, so there’s no excuse for not putting all your leaves,
prunings, weeds etc. out for the UCC leaf cruncher fortnightly collection. Many
other Councils in and around Adelaide also have similar collections these days
too. Well so what you ask?
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10th
Sept.
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The ground at the moment is begging out for
bedding plants for a summer display. The soil moisture and temperatures are
just right. Even the weeds recognize that. Soak seedlings in a seaweed
extract first, then the day after planting foliar spray with a water-soluble
fertilizer. The slow release prills and organic pellets come next week.
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17th
Sept.
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As
the spring days warm up, we can expect to see a few bedding plants and
container grown plants sag and look decidedly ‘how’s your father’.
This is caused by the soft growth recently formed, being put under its
first real test of warm soil and warm weather.
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24th
Sept.
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Local
gardeners love to grow tomatoes and they do it very well too, because
unlike Sydney gardeners we do not have Fruit Fly to foul the effort. There
are some Italian gardeners just off the Parade at Norwood that grow the
most productive tomatoes I’ve ever seen. Grafted ‘Marko’ if I recall
and one year one grew three metres tall on a five metre long trellis and
50kgs of luscious tomatoes were picked from one vine! That’s a lot of
pasta sauce.
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