Your indoor plants may suffer badly during winter – so start protecting them as soon as possible. Firstly do not place indoor plants outside in winter – the cold temperatures could kill them. Water all indoor plants very sparingly during winter – cold...
Winter is a cooler time so it’s worth considering doing a makeover on your garden. Not a HUGE makeover, but an enjoyable one. Perhaps your garden is too labour intensive. Would you like to make it easier to maintain? Well consider avoiding or removing the labour...
Winter is here and this can be a truly excellent time of the year in the garden. So many plants produce perfumed flowers in winter. Many gardens are more open to sunlight after the deciduous leaves fall. The still, sunlit days of winter with the wafting...
Recently a listener asked me if it was legal for her once-a-week gardening person to blow the leaves and clippings onto the street or into the gutter. It’s illegal to contribute to blocking drains in streets. This practice also pollutes local waterways and...
Many areas have had a lot of rain recently. While the ground is wet is an ideal time to do some weeding. Weeds are easy to pull out of damp or wet soil. Weeds in lawn areas are caused by mowing too closely, by excessive foot traffic forming tracks in the...
Soon the grass will stop growing and it’ll be time to put the mower to bed for winter. But mower fuel goes stale over winter leading to problems with starting the mower in spring. This problem is easily fixed by adding some fuel stabilizer to your mower’s fuel. ...
One of the most common queries we get is this: Why don’t my plants flower or set fruit? Citrus trees, orchids, wisterias, bougainvilleas, tomatoes, passionfruit etc. What’s wrong? Well it’s one of two things: For citrus, orchids and many other plants it is...
When you go to Japan you see moss growing everywhere. The Japanese don’t have grass or lawns at all – they use moss instead. They place stepping-stones to allow people to walk over mossy areas. These Japanese moss gardens are amongst the world’s most beautiful...
Just a warning about people in your roof… Electricians, air-conditioning trades people, ceiling insulation people and roofing tradespeople all disappear up into your roof cavity, do some work, then quietly leave. Many of these roofing people, knowing...
We’ve left the warm humid days of summer behind us now, so it’s time to belatedly plant your winter vegies. Planting them earlier may have led to problems due to the wet summer and constant humidity. So, now is the time to plant all peas (snow peas, sugar...