29 July 2023 | QLD Fruit Fly
Begin your Queensland Fruit Fly Prevention strategy NOW! Now is the time to begin your campaign against Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF). Don’t delay! This pest is already the scourge of fruit and vegetable growers throughout the northern suburbs, but without doubt...
7 July 2023 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips
Start now to prevent brown rot of stone fruit in Spring! Start now to prevent brown rot of stone fruit in Spring! Top tips: Remove all fruit including mummified fruit Clean out crotches Remove all vegetative material beneath trees Spray up to 4 times before buds open...
7 July 2023 | Australian Natives, Biodiversity
Hardy & cheap local native plants for your garden While it’s a relatively lean season in the vegetable garden, it’s the perfect time to be planting lots of indigenous plants, allowing them to develop roots and settle in before the spring and the growing season...
6 July 2023 | Gardening tips, Garlic, July, Monthly Guides, Root Vegetables
July garlic hint July is an easy month! All you need to do is keep your garlic weed free, netted to prevent cockatoo strike and watered if there is insufficient rain. If you did not enrich your soil prior to planting, give each row a side dressing of blood and bone...
4 June 2023 | Fruit trees
Dealing with suckers! For the health of fruit trees, it is important to remove suckers at pruning time. Suckers are the shoots that grow from the rootstock beneath the graft on fruit trees. Most fruit trees are grafted, sometimes having several grafts on the one tree....
4 June 2023 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips
Pruning and care of fruit trees Pruning and care of fruit trees First published in July 2022 Top tips follow the timetable below for individual fruit trees prune on a warm, dry day, especially for apricots and cherries avoid using wound healing sprays remove suckers...
