Yates Garden Guide (44th Edition)
Australia's bestselling and most trusted gardening guide in its 44th edition! A must-have for keen gardeners.
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- To help keep indoor plants healthy and flourishing, it’s important to know where they prefer to grow and how to care for them.
- There’s also handy information on propagation, pest and disease control, general trouble shooting and lots of gorgeous and inspirational photos.
- Written by Yates’ horticulturist Angie Thomas it’s a perfect introduction to successfully growing lots of healthy lush indoor plants.
- Available online and at selected book stores.
Yates Top 50 Indoor Plants and How NOT to Kill Them! covers 50 of the most popular indoor plants, where in your home they’re suited to and tips on watering, feeding and how to pot them up.
Indoor plants are making a brilliant comeback into people’s homes and are now super trendy and must have additions into interior spaces. Indoor plants are a fantastic way to help bring the outdoors in and enable people with limited space to garden. Plants also have the clever ability to help remove toxins from the air and can bring a sense of calm into our busy lives. There are indoor plants for almost every space around your home, whether it’s a humid bathroom, a dark bedroom or a tiny shelf, as well as plants with colourful foliage or beautiful flowers.
Garden Pruning Tips
To prune or not to prune; that is the question. The answer is almost always YES... but read these tips before starting.
Autumn Fungal Diseases
With this seasonal abundance of atmospheric moisture it’s easy to see why this is the time of year for fungal diseases.
Autumn Gardening - Seasonal jobs
Autumn is a wonderful time of the year for gardening, being kinder to gardens and gardeners alike. Mild autumn afternoons are also perfect for relaxing on a lush green lawn, so pop some simple lawn care tasks in your gardening diary too.
Autumn Invaders
Rodents like rats and mice can become an increasing problem during the cooler months, as they’re searching for food and shelter.
Autumn is the season for moving plants
March, April and May – when it’s not too hot and not too cold – are great months for transplanting evergreen shrubs and small trees from one spot in your garden to another.
Autumn Vegies & Herbs to sow in May
There are plenty of vegies to sow in most areas, including cabbages, broccoli, kale, Asian greens, lettuce, onions, peas, spinach, carrots, salad greens and follow up crops of broad beans, sugar snap peas and radish.
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