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Top Gardening tips from Hot Water Beach Garden Centre
FeaturedThe summer season is sweetened by a garden full of fresh crops and flowers. For gardeners in the Mercury Bay and Coromandel Peninsula focus your efforts on watering and pest/disease control to keep plants flourishing. And for those with green fingers, read on to get top summer gardening tips from the Hot Water Beach Garden Centre team.
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1. To help plants with water retention and distribution, add a wetting agent to the soil like Saturaid. Finish with a layer of mulch for best results. Water deeply in the morning or early evening every few days.
2. Slugs, snails, caterpillars, whitefly and aphids are likely to become a problem throughout the garden. Lay bait to control slugs and snails. Caterpillars and whitefly and aphids are best controlled with Pyrethrum, Success or Neem oil. Be aware oil sprays can burn your plants on hot sunny days. Spray with copper to control mildew, powdery mildew, black spot, lemon scab and leaf spot.
3. Continue successive plantings of summer veges and herbs including basil, beans, beetroot, capsicum, carrot, celery, chilli, coriander, courgette, cucumber, lettuce, parsley, pumpkin, radish, silverbeet, spinach, spring onions, sweetcorn and tomatoes.
4. Tomatoes are heavy feeders. Generously apply tomato food monthly. Try Wally's Tomato Food with Neem Tree Granules or Tui Tomato Food.
5. Plant summer fruit crops such as blueberries, strawberries, passionfruit, grapes, kiwifruit and tamarillos.
6. Check citrus for scale and spray with an oil spray to get on top of the problem.
7. Plant summer flowers including Petunia, Dahlia, Alyssum, Cosmos, Gaillardia, Arctosis, Marigold, Saliva, Penstemon, Hollyhock, Delphinium, Dianthus, Fuchsia and Lavender. Check out our Aussie plants that like it hot and dry like the Lomandra range, Callistemons and Westringias.
8. For a longer flowering season, liquid feed with a seaweed tonic fortnightly and remove faded blooms. After the first flush of flowers, prune your roses and hydrangeas then after give a feed of Chicken & Sheep pellets or a good rose food to your roses. A deep water and you should get another flush of rose blooms in about 6 weeks.
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