Our Gardening Guides have been created for each month specific to your growing region!
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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.
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 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 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 warm humid summers with high summer rainfall, and mild winters. Includes coastal areas of Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Let the change in season be a reminder to POPUL8 your entire garden. Winter is also a great time to add bare rooted roses into the garden. Remove the rose from its bag and soak in a full bucket of water with 20mL GOGO Juice for at least six hours before planting. Add a handful of Seamungus pellets to the bottom of the planting hole to set the plant up nicely in its new home.
Aerate lawns with a fork or lawn aerator now and remove broadleaf weeds like capeweed before they flower. Top dress your lawn with Seamungus Lawn to help improve root growth over the winter period when leaf growth tends to be slower. Non-flowering plants will also benefit from an application of Seamungus Lawn.
After pruning winter dormant plants such as roses and fruit trees, feed the root zone with Seamungus. This will prepare the roots for the coming spring. Move cymbidium orchids into a spot so that can receive maximum sunlight and feed monthly with Strike Back for Orchids. The cooler months are the best times to relocate plants or divide clumping perennials. Mix some Seamungus through the new planting site and water in with GOGO Juice to stimulate new root growth for good establishment.
Acid loving plants such as camellias, azaleas and daphne are in flower now. Apply Kahoona every eight weeks to keep them strong over the next few months, and to allow early spring flowering varieties to develop a strong set of flower buds. Plant strawberry runners in raised beds or pots now. They like a slightly acidic soil, so use Seamungus when planting and feed with Kahoona at the start of spring.
Winter is a great time for planting natives. Use some Seamungus in the bottom of the planting hole to get them started and water in with GOGO Juice. If you need some winter colour in the garden, consider planting the colourful climber ‘Hardenbergia violacea’ also known as ‘Happy Wanderer’, or flowering shrub ‘Alyogyne huegelii’ also known as ‘Native Hibiscus’.
Established asparagus fronds will be bright yellow in colour by now. Prune them back to ground level and generously apply two or three handfuls of Rapid Raiser over the soil. Mulch with Whoflungdung and stand back for delicious asparagus spears appearing with the arrival of spring.
