WINTER
Your Gardening Guide for August
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WINTER
Your Gardening Guide for August
HOT REGION
Welcome to August!
As winter fades and spring slowly approaches, your garden is brimming with potential. It's the perfect month to start preparing for the vibrant season ahead. Expect to see the first signs of new growth as the days gradually get warmer and longer. Your garden's transformation starts now!
August Top Tips
#1 Improve soils
Apply a layer of mulch and/or compost around the base of your fruit trees to improve soils and water retention.
#2 Blueberries
Plant blueberries. They are an incredible fruiting plant and highly rewarding. Grow in pots to provide the ideal growing environment.
#3 General tasks
It’s time for a general garden tidy. Place green waste in your compost and apply blood and bone to energise your compost.
#4 Spray stone fruit
Spray stone fruit with a copper based spray to prevent leaf curl.
Diggers top pest tips
Mealy bugs
Monitor your crops for mealy bugs.
Caterpillars
Monitor crops for cabbage white butterfly and their caterpillars on fresh green growth.
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Green manure
Can plant a green manure crop to add some nutrients back into your patch,crops like wheat, lablab or chickpea sown now will help improve soils especially before planting heavy feeders in spring.
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Attract pollinators and beneficial insects
Plant some flowering nasturtium, petunias, marigolds, celosia now to attract pollinators and beneficial insects to your patch.
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