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Get Growing!
The Millwater Gardening Competition is on!!!! The competition is being judged in late November by Dean Rissetto, owner of Central Landscapes Silverdale and Heather Tait, Living Earth’s Marketing Manager.
Be in to win in the following categories:– Best Lawn Best Vegetable Garden Best OVERALL Garden How to register: email your entry to sarah@themillwatermag.co.nz by the end of October. The Vegetable Garden Planting now – Most herbs (but not basil) will really get growing and produce lots of delicious leaves if you get them in now. Coriander and parsley cope with reasonable rain, as do dill and chervil. Winter-dormant herbs such as chives and French tarragon are either poking through the soil from last year or being offered now in garden centres. Why don’t we plant the hydroponically-grown herbs from supermarkets outdoors at this time? They were grown in too tender an environment to survive changeable spring weather. Labour Weekend – Given it’s been a late, wet winter, gardeners can expect that Labour Weekend will be one of the earliest opportunities to plant the more tender vegetables. These include tomatoes, capsicum, courgettes and chillies. Planting Tomatoes – they grow in warm, sunny areas and require staking – most will grow to at least 1.8m high – so plant with a tall stake! For best results, plant in Living Earth organic certified Veggie Mix and liquid feed with Living Earth Organic Liquid Compost at fortnightly intervals. Snail alert – Many of us are right into gardening the natural way, but giving up some of a wellearned beer to slugs and snails is an ask… However it works! Drop a few tablespoons into a small glass jar and position among the veggies. Choose to believe they die happy… Butterfly love – If you’ve noticed a monarch or two flying around the garden, then it’s likely they have come back to the source of last year’s food and the place where they laid their eggs. If you managed to pull out last year’s swan plants, hightail it to the garden centre to plant more and placate these beauties!
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