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Your Gardening Guide for February
SUBTROPICAL REGION
SUMMER
Your Gardening Guide for February
SUBTROPICAL REGION
Welcome to February!
February gardening is often about keeping up – keeping up with a glut of produce, keeping up with fertilising and keeping up with weeding and pest prevention.
February Top Tips
#1 Tidy
Tidy up overgrown vegetation and weed garden beds now
#2 Daily visits
Take daily visits to the vegie garden in the cool of the morning for daily harvests.
#3 shade
Add covers to protect crops from heat, storms and insect damage.
#4 Check soil pH
If there's been good rain, check the pH in your soils (do a pH test) to see if you soil has become acidic.
Diggers top pest tips
Root knot
Root knots are likely to show up in many gardens with waterlogged soil. Improve drainage and build good soil structure with additions of compost & organic matter.
Powdery mildew
White spots on peas is is powdery mildew, a common fungal disease which spreads quickly when the days are warm and dry, but nights are chilly with dewy mornings.
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Fruit fly
Fruit flies are destructive pests and can attack up to 300 species of fruit and above ground vegetables.
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Plants to plant now
Plant tomatoes, capsicums and eggplants, lettuce (heat-tolerant varieties), radish, beetroot and silverbeet, beans, cucumber and zucchini, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower, turnip.
Last chance to plant sweetcorn.
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