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South Australia - February 2002 |
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4th |
Time to
stake and tie your chrysanthemums up, or else their stems develop into
long curves that defy placement in vases for cut flowers in April-May.
Start feeding them fortnightly with a high potassium water-soluble
fertilizer such as Cultisol, All-Grow or Phostrogen or even any special
purpose tomato fertilizer, all of which seems to suit them. |
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11th
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This is the time of year when the effect of the
cypress borer is most easily seen. The tell tale signs are the odd branch on
a cypress hedge or tree, which die back to a particular point. Usually the
point at which the borer larvae that resembles a cream coloured witchetty
grub, have entered the branch and eaten a hole up the branch.
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18th |
It’s
the ideal time right now to start taking cuttings of all those plants that
you need to increase your collection. It’s got to be one of the lowest
cost options in the garden and it’s pretty easy too, if you start with
the fail-safe plants.
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25th
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My
wife Annie asked me recently why we didn’t have any rocket growing, to
which I replied that it’s a winter-spring salad crop, but it seems that
two of her lunch colleagues currently have rocket galore at Mount Pleasant
and Torrensville. Now I guess I’ll have to sacrifice some of the lettuce
patch for rocket in summer.
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