Central Gardening Tips for October

Central’s Tips

October 2018

It’s growing time! Plant summer veggies and herbs, hang sticky traps in apple and pear trees and patch up that lawn. It’s also a good time to get the weeds and pests under control and add mulch to the garden.

In the Veggie Patch

• Plant all the summer producing vegetables – tomatoes, capsicum, zucchini, cucumbers and eggplants

• Did you know? It’s best to put a tall stake (1.8m) beside your small tomato plants as the vine types grow very tall and need support

• Eating flowers – there are plenty of flowers that can be used in salads or as edible garnishes - nasturtiums, carnations, daylilies, rose petals and violas are just a few

• Hang sticky traps in apple and pear trees to stop an infestation of codling moth in the young fruit.

Or, Spray with Yates’ Success

Ultra (four times only) over the spring season. • Summer herbs such as dill, French tarragon and coriander are good to plant now

The rest of the Garden

• Wage war on the weeds – by actively removing or spraying them early in the season

• Aphids appearing: Spray with an organic insecticide or, if your water pressure is good, loosen them with a heavy squirt of water

• Apply sheep pellets and a layer of mulch around the garden.

Lawns

• Patch existing or sow new lawns

• Fertilise lawns with Turfmaster

Gold.

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