Keeping your garden well fed and nourished is essential to help you grow healthy and thriving plants.
Happy, healthy, well nourished plants are more resistant to pests, diseases, heat stress and frost.
Fertilising the garden is easy to do, but you need to apply the right fertiliser for your plants at the right time of the year.
What is the best fertiliser to use and when?
As the weather heats up, keep an eye out for heat stress in ALL areas of your garden. Applying products rich in seaweed and organic matter like Seasol Seaweed Concentrate, OCP Eco-Seaweed and Munash Indoor Plant Seaweed Tonic, around your plants can help to improve the soils’ water-holding capacity and the plants’ ability to tolerate hot weather.
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Vegetables & Herbs:
Pull out any weeds competing for water and give your herbs and vegies a blast with Yates Thrive Vegie & Herb Liquid Plant Food. Check out our Top 5 Weeding Tips for Your Garden to see how you can get on top of weeds.
Apply Yates Scale Gun Pest Killer to control aphids, mites, thrips, mealybug and whitefly.
Flowering Plants:
Deadhead azaleas, rhododendrons and camellias – lightly prune to shape and then apply Yates Thrive Rose & Flowering Plants Liquid Plant Food every 2 weeks. The Burgon & Ball Ergo Deadheader is the perfect tool to keep on top of your pruning.
Deadhead roses regularly to encourage new growth and flowers. Feed with Yates Thrive Rose & Flowering Plants Liquid Plant Food every 1-2 weeks throughout summer and autumn for a beautiful rose display.
Summer flowering annuals like petunia, zinnia and marigolds can also be fed with Yates Thrive Rose & Flowering Plants Liquid Plant Food (if they are in the ground) or Yates Thrive Orchid Liquid Plant Food (if they are in a pot).
Once orchids have finished flowering, they can be repotted and divided if needed. Mix OCP Eco Seaweed through the orchid bark when repotting to make well-draining soil. The repotted orchids can be fed with Yates Thrive Orchid Liquid Plant Food again in Spring.
Fruit Trees:
Feed all stonefruit trees with Yates Thrive Fruit & Citrus Liquid Plant Food to encourage new growth. Apply around the dripline and water in well.
Make sure all fruit trees, including citrus have a regular supply of water over the summer months – this will reduce the risk of fruit splitting and improve fruit and flavour development.
Apply Manutec Wettable Sulphur on fruit trees to keep on top of fungal diseases like brown rot or freckle until fruits are almost ripe.
Natives:
In mid-summer give natives a light trim to maintain shape and feed with Seasol Seaweed Concentrate, OCP Eco-Seaweed and Munash Organics Renew.
Lawns:
To encourage lush green growth over summer feed your lawns with a nitrogen boosted fertilizer such as Nitrosol Blood & Bone or Yates Weed ‘n’ Feed.
Aerate the lawn to loosen up the soil underneath and to make watering the lawn easier. Apply Seasol Super Soil Wetter to break down the waxy, water repellent layer that often develops on the soil surface during the warmer months.
Indoor Plants:
Keep the air around indoor plants humid by regularly misting plants with a water mister.
Wipe leaves occasionally with a damp cloth to keep them clean and give them a spray every two weeks.
If you are going away over the festive season, water all your potted plants thoroughly a day or so before leaving, then move them all to the coolest part of the house. They will survive quite well for a couple of weeks without further water.
Feed fortnightly with ready to use Seasol Pots and Planter Spray – no mixing required.
Pest Control
Slug and snails can be active whenever there are young plants around. Check out How to Get Rid of Snails & Slugs to see how you can keep them at bay.
