AUTUMN
Your Gardening Guide for March
HOT REGION
AUTUMN
Your Gardening Guide for March
HOT REGION
Welcome to March!
As summer fades, March is the perfect time to refresh your garden for autumn. In most regions, it's the ideal time for planting cool-season veggies like broccoli, spinach, and carrots. Whether you're sowing, tidying, or planning, March is a month of renewal for every Aussie gardener.
March Top Tips
#1 Trim citrus trees
Trim any branches on your citrus trees that might be hanging lower than 1m. This helps prevent the spread of brown rot.
#2 Fertilise
Top dress the garden with aged compost and apply a slow release fertiliser to give your entire garden a boost.
#3 Mulch
Deep mulch all your beds and trees keeping away from the trunks of citrus to avoid collar rot.
#4 Weed
Remove all weeds and any plants in your garden you don’t want to spread before they start to go to seed.
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Pumpkins
It's too late to plant pumpkins but save seed from your favourites now and plant them next spring.
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Beneficial Plants
Planting winter and spring flowering annuals such as alyssum, nemophila, calendula, nemesia, poppies will create a bright display that will attract the pollinators and beneficial insects to your garden.
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Compost
Gather any fallen leaves, a readily available source of carbon and add them to your compost bin.
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Encourage ladybirds and lacewings
Encourage ladybirds and lacewings (natural predators to thrips) by planting beneficial plants: dill, coriander, Queen Anne's lace, Fennel, Tansy, Cosmos, Coriander and Marigolds.
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