What to do in your Garden this Month

Plant and sow :

• Sow the following veggies this month: cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, onions, lettuce, spinach, turnips and beetroot.
• Plant leafy herbs like chives, sorrel, rocket, watercress, basil, dill, parsley and chicory.
• Sow these winter-flowering annuals now: marigold, chrysanthemum, larkspur, bokbaaivygie, lupin, stocks, nemesia, Iceland poppy, viola and pansy.

Nourish :

• Feed deciduous fruit trees like apple, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach, pear, plum and quince with 2kg of 2:3:2 each and water well.
• Feed lilies with a tablespoon of 3:1:5 dissolved in five litres of water. Mulch well.
• Keep azaleas and camellias well watered and mulched. Treat yellow foliage with iron chelate and feed each bush with a tablespoon of Epsom salts.
• Feed cannas with a handful of 2:3:2 and water well.

Neaten up :

• Prune summer-flowering plants like pelargoniums, lavender, abelia, weigela, hydrangeas, heliotrope and salvia.
• Prune all evergreen trees, except those that bear flowers and berries in spring.
• Divide and replant easy to grow groundcovers and perennials like agapanthus, wild iris, red-hot pokers, hen and chicken, daylilies, alstroemerias, asters and watsonia.

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