Mid-Winter at last! Not too long before the days start warming up again. While it is chilly outside the thought of venturing out into the garden may not be quite as alluring. However there is no time like the present to undertake the following gardening projects:
1. Prepare your soil with good compost and plant bare root roses and fruit trees.
2. Here is the chance to do some transplanting. Prepare the hole before you lift the plant. Compost the soil, stake if necessary and use seaweed solution to lessen the shock and help the plant to bed into its new spot.
3. If you find frost-damaged plants in the garden restrain yourself from cutting them back. This will help to avoid further damage.
4. Curly leaf is a problem we deal with before a trees buds burst open post bud-swell. Stems, trunk and the area around tree all need to be sprayed with either lime sulphur, copper oxychloride or kocide. Choose the right one depending on the tree variety.
5. Check for and remove gall wasp from your citrus trees. Dispose of any cuttings in a sealed bag with your rubbish and not the compost.
6. Now we are locked indoors a bit more, pay some extra attention to your indoor plants. Reduce watering and perhaps apply some seaweed solution. Give the indoor plants a nice clean to clear away any dust on their leaves.
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