Winter is a wonderful time to be out in the garden. Why not brighten it up with some instant colour pots of Pansies, Primulas and Polyanthus. They will flower until spring and the colours will dazzle you.
Important jobs for August include fertilising all your trees and shrubs. As they begin to grow a good helping of organic manure or compost, blood and bone, or organic fertiliser will improve spring and summer flowering and keep plants healthy. Waratahs, Proteas and Grevilleas are best with only slow release fertiser.
August is time to spray your deciduous fruit trees and surrounding ground,just before bud burst,with Fungus Fighter to control Curly Leaf in Peaches and Nectarines and Shot Hole in other stone fruit. Spray Lime Sulphur for scales and fungal spores, and pest oil and malathon to control woolly aphid in apples. Mulch all fruit trees, including citrus with compost or manure and sugar cane to protect and feed the important surface roots. The addition of Potash will also improve fruiting and health.
You still have time to prune friut trees and roses but be quick before the spring growth and blossoms begin.
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