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Your Gardening Guide for November
NOVEMBER REGION
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Your Gardening Guide for November
SUBTROPICAL REGION
Welcome to November!
Traditionally the busiest month of the year in the garden, the spring garden is in its prime. There’s still lots of work to be done to prepare your garden now for a long hot summer ahead.
November Jobs
#1 Sweet corn
Plant some sweet corn in your garden. Sow them in blocks rather than single rows for effective pollination.
#2 Rhizomes
Spice it up by planting rhizomes such as ginger, turmeric and galangal, and tubers like sweet potato and yacon.
#3 Plant fruit
Put in some delicious fruiting plants such as passionfruit, pawpaw, babaco and avocado.
#4 Add colour
Plant some annuals for summer colour. Pollinators and other beneficial insects will love them. Try some cosmos, verbena and marigolds.
November Essentials
It's time to get planting your last remaining crops in preparation for your summer harvest. We look at the benefits of living mulch and we get our hands dirty planting some strawberries!
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Grasshoppers
Watch out for pest attacks, especially grasshoppers.
Read our article to learn more about grasshoppers in the garden.
Sap suckers
Keep an eye on ants in your fruit trees that may signal presence of sap suckers like aphids and mealy bug. Regularly remove suckers from grafted roses, citrus, passionfruit and other fruit trees. Read our article to learn more about Aphids.
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Scale and mealybug
Spray shrubs, vines, containerised plants, succulents and cycads with horticultural oil now. Apply three times, leaving 3 weeks between applications, controls scale and mealybug. Read our article to learn more about Scale insects.
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Controlling nematodes
Plant marigolds around tomatoes to help with controlling nematodes.
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