Our Gardening Guides have been created for each month specific to your growing region!
Click your region below to find out how to get the most out of your garden this month.
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Areas with warm humid summers with high summer rainfall, and mild winters. Includes coastal areas of Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Areas with high humidity summers with most of its rainfall in summer, with warm and dry winters. Includes northern coastal areas of Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland.
Areas with hot and dry summers, and cool or warm winters depending on the region. Includes central Australia, inland Queensland and New South Wales, and inland Western Australia.
Areas with moderate humidity and reliable rainfall, with four distinct seasons. Includes coastal areas in New South Wales, coastal South Australia, inland Victoria, and the south-eastern coast of Western Australia.
Areas with low humidity with most of its rainfall in winter, hot and dry summers and cold winters. Includes south-eastern Australia, alpine Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania.
Ensure a resilient garden through summer by applying products rich in seaweed and organic matter such as Seamungus and GOGO Juice. This will improve the soil’s water holding capacity and most importantly, the plant’s ability to tolerate harsh conditions. As the weather heats up, keep a close eye out for heat stress in all areas of the garden. Where plants are looking tired or sickly, treat the plant with POPUL8 when UV is low.
To encourage lush green growth over summer, feed your lawns with a nitrogen boosted fertiliser such as Sudden Impact for Lawns granules or Advanced Biological Formula. If your lawn is looking patchy and showing signs of heat stress and overuse, we recommend applying Seamungus Lawn and POPUL8 to aid its recovery. Top up all other non-flowering plants with Seamungus or Seamungus Advanced Biological Formula.
Dead head roses regularly to encourage new growth and flowers and then apply Sudden Impact for Roses every eight weeks throughout summer and autumn for a beautiful rose display. Summer flowering annuals such as petunia, zinnia and marigold can also be fed with Sudden Impact for Roses (if they are in the ground) or Strike Back for Orchids (if they are in a pot). Once orchids have finished flowering, they can be repotted and divided if needed.
Dead head azaleas, rhododendrons and camellias, giving them a light prune to shape and then apply Kahoona. Pick blueberries between October and February when the berries are dark. Blueberries can also be fed with Kahoona and water in with GOGO Juice.
In mid-summer, give native plants a light trim to maintain their shape, and feed with Bush Tucker Advanced Biological Formula. This has been boosted with bacteria and fungi to increase disease resistance and resilience to stress which will assist the plants greatly during summer.
Pull out any weeds competing for water and give your vegetables and herbs a feed with Gyganic for Veggies, Fruit and Citrus. Apply Gyganic to all stone fruit trees to encourage new growth. Make sure all fruit trees, including citrus, have a regular supply of water over the summer months to reduce the risk of fruit splitting and to improve fruit flavour and development.
