Autumn
Autumn is a great time for garden maintenance. Every minute you spend working in your garden during autumn will really see you being greatly rewarded in spring.
We recommend the following task be carried out in the autumn months:
Lawns
Aerate lawns, using a garden fork to spike the law.
Apply organic fertiliser to lawns and gardens. This is really best done on a rainy day. The rain will wash the fertiliser into the earth, it also lessens the smell, prevents leaf burn and saves you from needing to hose it in, thereby saving water.
Prune shrubs that have finished summer flowering. In May prune hydranges.
Treat Pests and diseases.
- Scale pests - Spray with white oil
- Cabbage white butterfly - Spray with Dipel
- Caterpillar control - Spray with salty water. Add two table spoons of salt to a bucket of water and spray directly on to pest.
- Aphids - spray with white oil or soapy water
Deadhead roses
Cut back pelargoniums by about two-thirds
Cut down herbaceous perennials that have finished flowering.
Planting
Fruit
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Vegetables
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Flowers
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Herbs
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Bulbs
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Carob
Chestnut
Crabapple
Fig
Grapes
Kiwifruit
Macadamia
Mandarin
Olives
Orange
Pears
Persimmon
Pomegranate
Rasberry
Walnut
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Broadbeans
Broccoli
Cress
Mustard
Onions
Peas
Shallots
Spinach
beetroot
lettuce
silverbeet
cabbage
cauiflower
radish
capsicum
broccoli
snow peas
leeks
onion
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Alyssum
calendula
lupin
gypsophila
pansy
salvias
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Mint
spearmint
peppermint
coriander
chives
curry
lemon grass
lemon balm
lemon verbena
oregano
parsley
rosemary
rocket
sage
thyme
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plant spring bulbs in Autumn
Daffodil
Freesia
Hyacinth
Iris
Jonquil
Ranunculas
Tulip
Bulbs require very cold conditions in order to flower so if you don't live in an area that has frost, place bulbs in crisper of fridge for 4 to 6 weeks before planting.
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