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Getting into the garden in September
34 Getting into the garden in SEPTEMBER with Central Landscapes Silverdale
In the edible garden: always wanted to start that veggie bed? Now’s the time! Central Landscapes has Living Earth organic-certified Veggie Mix for you to grow safe, healthy food at home!
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Planting Now
Heaps: Many summer vegetables can be planted out in the garden now: plant carrots, beetroot, lettuces, spring onions, Florence fennel. For a bit of height and drama – plus yummy to eat – place artichokes in prominence in the vegetable bed!
Later in the month, choose sunny yet sheltered areas for: tomatoes, capsicums, chillies, cucumber, courgettes and eggplants. (Plant two eggplants, not just one – we’ll explain the need for pollination in a couple of months).
Sowing Now
In a sunny, indoor spot (we like the laundry) sow: Basil and tomato seeds. What goes together – grows together! Basil plants help keep pests and disease at bay and, together with tomatoes, are a beautiful blend of flavour.
Herbs
Most herbs can be planted now. Don’t forget – prostrate rosemary and oreganos (pictured) and culinary thymes make lovely ‘spill-over’ plants in raised beds.
Edible Flowers
Get into the latest food trend by planting heartsease, daylilies (pale flowers, not red), English lavender, nasturtiums, borage flowers and, yes, even wild onion weed flowers! – Your summer salads are going to look amazing!
Hang Pheromone traps in the fruit trees: Protect apple and pear trees from codling moth attacks on the forming fruit by using these natural, sticky traps.
Happy gardening from the experts at CLS Silverdale. Call in to see us with your soil and mulch questions!
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