Vegetables & Herbs

• Baileys Soil Matters Garden is an organic based, broad spectrum plant food which can be applied across the entire garden and veggie patch. It's microbial coating is designed to stimulates healthy population of native soil biology and improve nutrient uptake. 

Flowers & Ornaments

• The early starters in the camellia family are the sasanqua types. These begin their show in April and progressively open through May and finish up in June. Give them a feed if you haven't already done so.Time to give the lawn a feed, see our lawn section for advice.

Flowers & Ornaments

• Cut the deadhead of Dahlias to keep the flowers coming along.
• Get lethal with the secateurs on your roses if you haven't pruned them already in March. Take off about a third of the stem growth and follow up with an application of Baileys Soil Matters Garden to give them a good feed. 

Trees & Bushes

• Time to prune. Cut back flower heads of agapanthus and oleanders now they have finished flowering.
• Prepare and enrich existing soil for cool season plantings with Baileys Soil Improver Plus.

• Autumn fertilising prepares your lawn for the winter months. It encourages prolonged growth to ensure a thick coverage and extended colour. These applications will be the most important for the year. It will also help prevent weeds from taking hold while your lawns growth rate slows.
  When the soil temperature drops in winter, we recommend moving to foliar applications only, so fertiliser early March and again mid-April to early May using a granular fertiliser like Baileys Energy Turf or 3.1.1. Plus.
• If your lawn is in need of some TLC, is warn or patchy, apply Baileys Lawn Reviver as a top dressing, this will boost the soil profile with organic carbon and stimulate soil biology. The exciting thing is you can see the difference within days.
• Dethatching your lawn can be done now if needed. The test is to walk over the lawn to see how spongy it has become. Thatch is a build-up of dead stems and grass leaves above the soil surface.
• This is a good time to plant a new lawn. Prepare the area with a layer of Baileys Soil Matters Clay & Compost. If it's clay, however, use Soil Improver Plus and dig into the soil to a depth of 10cm. 

• Watch out for slugs, snails, aphids, whitefly, cabbage moth and associated caterpillars in the vegie patch this season. 
• The best method is always prevention and if you don't have a problem, act quick to secure your garden with a finely woven net immediately. Exclusion netting is a great way to keep most pests at bay.