Garden Care for Autumn

From Living Earth

Back into the garden, as Autumn begins!

Vegetable Heaven – once you’ve dug your soil over, applying fresh compost or Garden Mix as you go, then it’s full steam ahead with sowing seeds and planting – cabbages, Chinese vegetables, carrots, radishes and all the colourful types of cauliflowers and broccoli.

Parsley, the unfashionable ‘curly-leaf’ type – Makes a wonderful edging plant for the garden and the colour looks great in the winter. Still tastes as good as its smart Italian counterpart!

Feijoa time – Harvesting is definitely from now on – feijoas do tend to drop gently to the ground when ripe, so make a daily trip to collect them while they’re perfect.

Liquid feeding – Giving all new seedlings and plants a liquid feed establishes healthy roots. Central Landscapes recommends Living Earth organic-certified Liquid Compost for the job.

Tips for the autumn garden

BEST planting time - start by digging Living Earth organic-certified Compost through your soil. Then plant into it, making sure you water regularly in the event that it doesn’t rain.

BEST lawn sowing time – Central landscapes have Living Earth Ultra Lawn – a premium weed-free mix, ideal for sowing lawn seed into.

Rake up fallen leaves – leaving them on the lawn will stifle the grass and cause it to collapse.

Camellias, azaleas and other evergreen shrubs are planted now

– there’s a great range appearing in your local garden centre from now on.

Hedges & Edges a great month to trim and mulch the ‘sharp outline’ plants in your garden – nice and crisp for winter. Apply BLACKGOLD Mulch around the base to feed and make them look special!

ANZAC Day Poppies – sadly, the red poppies tend not to flower in New Zealand on Anzac Day, but they can be sown now for a beautiful reminder in spring.

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The BIG Millwater Clean-Up

Another successful Millwater Community Clean-Up completed this year; with nearly a half a tonne of rubbish collected by approximately eighty Fabulous Volunteers. On an extremely hot Sunday afternoon, an energetic group of locals – including a large number of children – scoured the area and collected a plethora of rubbish.

The day was successful only because of the efforts of our Volunteers and the fantastic businesses who sponsored prizes. The prizes went into a draw, allowing some of the lucky Volunteers to win a prize, which was then followed by a sausage sizzle.

BIG THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS:

EnviroWaste (paul.stringer@envirowaste.co.nz) for providing the skip and all the rubbish bags;

Mike Pero Real Estate (Sarah and Grayson) kindly put on a sausage sizzle to satisfy some healthy appetites;

PAK’nSAVE (Silverdale) for $75 to pay for bread, sauces, fruit, oil etc. for the sausage sizzle;

Esteem Beauty & Skin Therapy (Gabrielle Purvis) for 3 Vouchers;

Tyrecorp Silverdale (Grant) Vouchers for 2 wheel alignments and 2 puncture repairs;

Paulconroyphotography.com (Paul Conroy) Voucher and Official Photographer;

Run Auckland Series KARHU N.Z. (Dion Jelly) Running shoes and entries for RUN Auckland half marathon in Millwater;

Jetts Fitness Millwater (Charlie Kingsnorth) 10 Drink Bottles;

Horncastle Homes (Debbie) Hamper;

Highmark Homes (Phil Curson) 4 Vouchers;

Maddren Homes (Rodger Scott) 2 Vouchers;

Stonewood Homes (Darren) 4 Hampers;

Bays Flowers (Nicole Benjamin) 2 Vouchers;

Jester’s Pies (Fiona McLaren) 2 Vouchers;

Anonymous Local donated boxed gardening set; and

Anonymous Local donated box chocolates and a set of coloured pencils and erasers.