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All around Australia, there are lots of things to keep you wonderfully busy out in the garden during summer.
- Sow seeds of dwarf and climbing beans by mid-summer, now that the soil has warmed up. Try growing colourful beans like Yates Purple King Climbing Beans or Yates Tricolour Mix Dwarf Beans.
- Watch for powdery mildew on grapes, which will appear like a dusting of white powder over the foliage. At the first sign of this disease, spray the leaves with Yates Anti Rot Phosacid Systemic Fungicide.
- Keep feeding strawberry plants to promote healthy foliage growth and encourage further flowering and fruiting. Yates Thrive Strawberry & Berry Fruit Liquid Plant Food is a complete fertiliser designed especially for feeding berries like strawberries.
- Continue monitoring for skeletonising pear & cherry slugs on pears, cherries, apples and plums and control with Yates Success Ultra.
In temperate climates
- Continue baiting for fruit fly around stone fruit trees with weekly foliar sprays of Yates Nature’s Way Fruit Fly Control and during wet weather spray trees with Yates Mancozeb Plus to stop brown rot disease destroying the fruit.
- Treat zinc and manganese trace element deficiencies in citrus, which can appear as small, pale or mottled leaves, with foliar sprays of Yates Citrus Cure Zinc & Manganese Chelate.
- Cut back spent kangaroo paw flower stems to the ground.
- Take semi-hardwood cuttings of shrubs like buddlejas and hibiscus. Choose firm 10-15 cm pieces of leafy stems, dip the ends into Yates Clonex Purple Rooting Hormone Gel before inserting into a pot of moist Yates Seed Raising Mix. Keep the pot in a protected spot while roots develop.
In sub-tropical & tropical climates
- Prolonged wet weather can lead to root and collar rot diseases developing in susceptible plants like avocados, citrus and many Australian native plants, particularly in areas with poorly drained soil. Yates Anti Rot is a systemic fungicide that is applied over the foliage to prevent and control root and collar rot diseases.
- Visit your local garden centre and choose a bougainvillea while it’s in spectacular flower. Look for dwarf varieties for growing in small spaces and pots.
- Apply Yates Waterwise Soil Wetter over lawns and garden beds to help summer rain move into the soil and not sit on the soil surface.
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