Ready, steady, grow...
While we did give you a comprehensive feeding programme in the August issue, this is a quick reminder to get feeding now:
• Petunias, pansies, violas, primulas and other spring flowering annuals will continue flowering well into October if fed every two weeks with a liquid fertiliser.
• Work in compost and bonemeal as well as slow-release fertilisers around summer flowering perennials which are starting to shoot and start watering them more regularly.
• Feed leafy shrubs with a general fertiliser and flowering shrubs with 3:1:5 or 5:1:5 fertiliser.
• Apply fertiliser around the drip line of trees and water in well.
• For healthy foliage and more flowers feed outdoor pot plants with a liquid fertiliser at half strength every two weeks.
Tip
Water and feed spring flowering bulbs that you want to keep going for another season. Remove dead flowers and once the leaves turn yellow let them die back naturally before lifting the bulbs so that they can store food for next season’s flowers.
What to plant
If your fingers are itching to get into the soil, now’s your time!
• In warm frost-free areas, continue sowing summer annuals like asters, marigolds, zinnias, bedding dahlias, nasturtium, phlox, portulaca, Shirley poppy, lavatera, cosmos, cornflower and cleome.
• Other summer annuals that will be in garden centres and ready to plant out are salvias, marigold, bedding dahlias, gazanias, alyssum, dianthus and mimulus.
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FIRE AND Feathers!
On a dreary winter's day, a screen of fiery and feathery leaves puts up a fight against dullness!
GET THE ladies in!
At this time of year, early-flowering shrubs vie with each other to get the most attention. We say: Trust those with female names for frills and butterflies. They go the extra mile to flower their hearts out.
Vegetable Soups and dumplings
Vegetables make the most delicious soups and classic combinations are always a winner.
Yummy sweet potatoes for your good health
Boiled, baked or braaied, sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are a delicious and healthy winter comfort food. Just a dollop of butter, a little seasoning and you are good to go.
Pretty and functional
If cooking is your main thing, you would probably be more interested in the culinary value of the three herbs and some of their varieties we are describing.
Dried Seedheads & Pods
Autumn and winter are the best times to see what flowers produce the best seedheads that can be left on the plants to feed the birds and bugs and for harvesting for dried arrangements.
SO MANY FACES and so many choices...
Whoever associated a Cotyledon orbiculata (pig's ear) with the ear of a pig obviously did not know about all the varieties and cultivars this species in the genus Cotyledon has.
COLOURFUL Cold Weather WINNERS!
If it comes to a vote, these dependable shrubs will be the top candidates for prime performance in winter and in other seasons...
What makes a garden sustainable?
It is interesting to note that the United Nations defines sustainable development as: “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
Nurturing NATURE-The Story of Kraal Garden's Transformation
Nestled within Prince Albert's rustic embrace lies a gem that is a testament to the transformative power of human vision and nature's bounty.
