2024/10-Page 5-Your Garden in October
Early summer is also a good time to sow both warm and cool season grasses and to lay instant lawn before it gets too hot, but do not take short cuts you will regret later.
Your winter and spring flowering annuals will start dying down as the weather warms up and it is time to start planting your summer beds.
Try alyssum, aster, cleome, cosmos, dianthus, gaillardia, sunflower, lavatera, lobelia, marigold, zinnia, bedding begonia, celosia, New Guinea impatiens, petunia and vinca.
Feed your young summer vegetables with a liquid organic fertiliser every two weeks and make sure the beds are mulched and weed free.
Thin out seedlings to the correct spacing and use the thinning’s of carrots, spring onions and beetroot to add to salads.
Your winter and spring flowering annuals will start dying down as the weather warms up and it is time to start planting your summer beds.
Try alyssum, aster, cleome, cosmos, dianthus, gaillardia, sunflower, lavatera, lobelia, marigold, zinnia, bedding begonia, celosia, New Guinea impatiens, petunia and vinca.
Feed your young summer vegetables with a liquid organic fertiliser every two weeks and make sure the beds are mulched and weed free.
Thin out seedlings to the correct spacing and use the thinning’s of carrots, spring onions and beetroot to add to salads.
Tomatoes can be planted right up to their lowest leaves and the soil should be mounded up against the stems as they develop.
Once all danger of frost is over, start sowing or planting; asparagus, maize, sweet corn, bush beans, climbing beans, eggplant, broccoli, cucumber, cabbages, carrots, celery, lettuce, leeks, peppers, pumpkins, potatoes and sweet potatoes, radish, turnips, tomatoes, squashes, baby marrows and melons.
Always harvest your vegetables when they are young and tender, because the more you pick the more they will produce. Spring is also a good time to divide large clumps of rhubarb.
Once all danger of frost is over, start sowing or planting; asparagus, maize, sweet corn, bush beans, climbing beans, eggplant, broccoli, cucumber, cabbages, carrots, celery, lettuce, leeks, peppers, pumpkins, potatoes and sweet potatoes, radish, turnips, tomatoes, squashes, baby marrows and melons.
Always harvest your vegetables when they are young and tender, because the more you pick the more they will produce. Spring is also a good time to divide large clumps of rhubarb.
Add water retention granules and a good layer of fresh potting soil to your pot plants as well as a mulch like bark chips, rooibos tea, peach pips or even pebbles to your hanging baskets and potted plants and remember to water and feed regularly.
Repot overcrowded potted ferns with fresh potting soil and start feeding with half strength liquid fertiliser every two weeks.
October is also a good time to re-pot orchids when they have finished flowering.
Repot overcrowded potted ferns with fresh potting soil and start feeding with half strength liquid fertiliser every two weeks.
October is also a good time to re-pot orchids when they have finished flowering.
