January
Everyone breaths a collective sigh of relief normally in January. Christmas is done and dusted and it’s time to relax and enjoy summer.
PREPARE
Keep your gutters clean and help protect your place from bushfires. Compost any leaves from your gutters or add them to your worm farm.
Keep your lawn green and tidy. A click on lawn fertiliser can be a simple tonic for you grass, and don’t be tempted to mow it too short as it is more resilient to weeds if it’s cut slightly higher.
Water your potted plants well over summer, but watch that saucers don’t fill with stagnant pools as these will be breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
LEARN
January Gardening Tips
It’s hot and often humid in January, which is great growing weather, so you’ll need to be vigilant keeping weeds in check and vines under control. Also, watch out for fungal problems and pests as now is the time when they can quickly explode in numbers to devastating effects.
And here’s the tip; don’t dig, stay out of the sun during the hottest part of the day and instead use the time to do things that work best in hot weather, or at least can be achieved in the early hours of the morning or cooler evening hours.
Weeds
Summer weeds are luscious. So well do they grow it almost seems a shame to waster them…so don’t, turn them into great compost instead. Many weeds are full of nitrogen and break down quickly in a hot compost to provide a rich feed for your garden – but you have to make sure you’re not including pernicious weeds…keep your system turned regularly and it should be hot enough to kill of most weed seeds, but leaving out onion grass, onion weed and oxalis bulbs is prudent! Our Hungry Bins are great at turning your weeds to feed in no time.
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The Hot Spot
Gardening indoors in summer has its advantages. When it’s wet, you’re dry, for starters! If its too hot outside, indoors is shaded and often you can even have a fan or aircon on. So what are the best things to sort out, snap up and get cracking on during summer for the indoor gardener?
Feeding:
If you’re after flowers from your orchids again, feed them from January onwards with Campbell’s Special Fertiliser B – that’s the blue one. Other indoor plants love to get some liquid plant food in with their weekly water, but its best to dilute to half strength if you’re going to be this frequent with your fertilising...
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The Indestructibles
This time last year our gardens were being hammered with droughts then flood ingrains. Some of us even had fires to head off. Looking back on the year and seeing what has survived in gardens is a useful way of planning the way gardens might look in the future.
The plants that took a real battering may not be the best choices for replanting as the climate changes and spiking temperatures seem like summer’s norm. So what survived and what thrived? How can I create a garden that’s more than fake turf and concrete, and actually is a living, breathing thing that will help entice wildlife and cool our cities?
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