Flowers & Ornamentals

• It's time to feed roses again for the next flush of flower. Use Baileys Rose, Camellia & Azalea or Baileys Soil Matters Garden to optimise growth and promote an abundance of bright blooms and rich dark foliage. 

Citrus

• All citrus trees are surface feeders and do not like root competition from trees or shrubs. They need to be fed little and often every three months. Use a quality all-purpose granular fertiliser like Baileys Soil Matters Garden or Baileys Fruit & Citrus. 

Pot Plants

• Indoor plants may have suffering from a degree of neglect in your house as a result of the cool season where little growth takes place. Re-potting will give them a new lease of life. Use a top of the line mix such as Baileys Indoor Premium Potting Mix. 
• Feed with an organically enriched fertiliser such as Baileys Soil Matters Garden.

Lawn

Garden Beds

Pruning

• Prune 'once a year' flowering roses, including weeping standards, later this month when their moment of incomparable glory is over.
  
• Once spring flowering proteas and pincushion flowers have finished their show of blooms for the year, cut back the growth by about a third. This keeps the bush compact and encourages more flowers next year.
• Trim early spring flowering plants such as rosemary, Chinese lantern, Geraldton wax flower, Wisteria and Geranium.
  
• Trim hedges to neaten in preparation for Christmas visitors.
  

Water-wise Garden Beds 

• Now's the time to mulch before the weather warms up, use Baileys Moisture Mulch, to keep the soil protected and moist.
  
• Apply wetting agents now to improve water penetration before the summer months hit, use Baileys Grosorb. 

Water Plants

• If your pond is starting to turn green, add some edible aquatics to the water such as Lebanese cress or English water cress. These quickly grow and spread over the surface. Their roots mine the water for nutrients removing these as a source of food for algae. Best part - you can eat the foliage in salads and stir fries.

Each change of season brings a new suite of weeds to the garden. Summer dominant weeds are usually fast growing which makes them vulnerable to glyphosate based weed killers such as Zero and Roundup. Getting control early in the season is the secret to a weed free garden.

Vegetables & Herbs

• Tomatoes are pretty popular with pests and diseases. Applying water at the root zone instead of foliage will help to prevent fungal problems. This also works well for zucchini, pumpkins and melons all of which suffer from foliage diseases.
• Uneven watering of fruiting vegetables such as tomato and capsicum can develop a rot at the opposite end of the fruit to where it attaches to the vine. Called 'blossom end rot' the best solution is to mulch the plant with organic material.

Fruits

• Fruit fly control programs need to be put into top gear. These can involve cover spraying or baiting. Try individually bagging fruit in paper or netted bags for a completely chemical free fix.

Lawn

• This is the time African black beetle invade. Rather than blitz the garden with insecticides try flooding the lawn in the evening with water so the beetles and larvae come to the surface to provide a feed for kookaburra and other local birds.