SPRINGTIME is the season to enjoy sweeping colours and a tantalising scent in one’s garden.
To keep your garden blooming and luscious throughout spring and the coming warmer months of summer, here are some handy tips from the team at the Billabong Garden Complex.
Mulch the garden: Mulching with pea-straw, sugar cane or lucerne will help retain moisture, also will enrich the soil, and suppress weed growth.
Fertilise all your plantS: Fertilising your garden with complete organic fertiliser in early spring and mid-summer is important.
If you have several natives in your garden, you can use a selected native fertiliser. This is a balance of essential nutrients that is low in phosphorus.
Newly planted seedling trees and shrubs can be watered with seasol at the rate of 30ml to a 9 litres of water every 2-3 weeks.
Seasol stimulates root growth and promotes flowering, and fruiting and it gives plants better resistance to insects and fungal attack.
This season newly planted fruit and ornamental trees, water deeply once a week through summer to encourage deeper root growth.
Head to Billabong Garden Complex at 295 Numurkah Rd, to see the array of colour to sparkle up your garden this spring.
