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New season’s roses are available. Plant with ican Slow Food and Daltons Garden Mix. To encourage fast root growth dunk in a bucket of Grosafe Root Gro.
Ensure young trees and fragile plants are firmly staked and tied.
Mature rose bushes may be covered with lichen or scale, spray with Grosafe Lime Sulphur to defoliate the bush and kill off both lichen and the scale insects.
Prune deciduous trees in dry weather and protect cuts with Grosafe Pruning Paste
Plant new season Camellias, Daphne, Rhododendron, Hellebores, Pieris and Leucadendrons. When you plant add in ican Slow Food – these will feed your new plants for 2 years!
Plant autumn and winter flowering annuals – pansies, polyanthus, primulas, stock.
Protect young flowering annuals with Quash.
Prune roses in July once we’ve had hard frosts.

Plant out seedlings of broccoli, broad beans, cabbages, carrots, cauliflowers, onions, peas, perpetual spinach, shallots, kale, garlic, silverbeet and winter lettuce.
Liquid feed cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and brussel sprouts as they reach maturity with ican Fast Food.
Sow seeds of broad beans, silverbeet and lettuce.
Prepare asparagus beds for planting in July. Choose a sunny well drained site and dig trenches 30-40cm wide and 30cm deep and add in Riverside sheep pellets.
Sow green crops in vacant areas of your vegetable gardens such as mustard or blue lupin.
Protect young seedlings from slugs and snails with Quash.
Prune deciduous fruit trees, protect cuts with Grosafe Pruning paste.
Plant strawberries in a full sun position now for early Summer cropping.
Spray deciduous fruit trees with Grosafe Lime Sulphur & Enspray Oil to kill any pests and diseases and stop them over winter.
Erect cloches now to keep your veges warm and growing. Even a small cloche keeps off nasty cold wind and frost which makes a huge difference to leafy crops such as lettuce, spinach and rocket.