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THIS MONTH Francesca Beattie
1. Divide your herbaceous perennials.
This will keep your plants healthy and
vigorous year after year and multiply
your stock.
2. Net ponds now before Spring gets WE SOLD! WE SOLD!
underway to get them clean for the
coming warm summer season.
3. Clean out greenhouses ahead of Spring
and plant up bare areas for the growing
season.
4. Plant spring- owering bulbs now, such

as da odils, crocus and hyacinths, for
glorious colour next season.
IN THE FLOWER GARDEN
Image by Peggy Choucair from Pixabay • Continue to feed and deadhead flowers BUFFALO THORN – Asking R9.5m KATDORING WAY – Asking R4.39m

September in the Garden • Keep deadheading annuals and
and shrubs.
perennials.
• Prune back flowering shrubs such as WE SOLD! FOR SALE

roses, Hydrangeas etc. SOLE MANDATE
Spring is a busy time in your garden!
IN THE FRUIT GARDEN
Warmer weather is around the corner be aerated. The air needs to penetrate • Tidy up your strawberry plants and clear
and this is the time to take care of your the soil to keep the lawn roots healthy. away used straw, as this will harbour
lawn. An aerator punches holes in the lawn pests and diseases during summer.
allowing air and water to penetrate the • Pick ripe apples - to test when they are
Lawn areas – Scarify or mow your soil faster and deeper. ripe, gently lift them in the palm of your
kikuyu lawn short in sunny areas. hand or give them a gentle pull from the
Top dress it with screened weed- Fertilising – You need to choose the branch - they should come away easily. PERFECT FOR MULTIGENERATION LIVING!
free compost and make sure that it best organic soil enhancer which • Mow long grass under fruit trees to make CRAB APPLE PLACE – Asking R3.5m Asking R4.69m
is watered well and does not dry out. you can get from Turfnet. Sprinkle it easier to spot windfall fruits.
Fertilise your lawn with a good quality the soil enhancer over the lawn. • Cut back the fruited canes of your summer
organic fertiliser or Vermi-pellets from This will ensure rapid recovery from raspberries, if you have not already,
Turfnet. the scarifying process. The contour leaving the new green canes for next FOR SALE FOR SALE
compost encourages root and leaf year’s crop. Tie in next year’s raspberry JOINT MANDATE JOINT MANDATE
Scarifying – Thatch is a layer of dead growth. Remember to water well canes to support wires or fencing.
stems and roots that can build up on directly after application.
the surface of the soil. If the thatch is IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN
more than 2cm thick, disease problems Top dressing – After you have scari ed • Keep harvesting crops. If you have a lot of

are almost a certainty. To remove the and aerated your lawn, apply ORGANIC fruit and vegetables try freezing, drying,
thick layer of thatch, scarify the lawn weed-free lawn dressing from Turfnet pickling, and storing them so that you

by mowing it as short as possible. Rake to enhance your soil quality and ensure can bene t from them later in the year.

o the thatch and throw it away. Your that the roots do not dry out. Top • Pinch out the tips of outdoor cordon
lawn will grow back very quickly with dressing helps level out depressions tomato plants to concentrate the plants’ BREATHTAKING FAMILY RESIDENCE WELL PRICED IMMACULATE HOME
new healthy shoots/leaves. and undulated areas in the lawn so energy into producing ripe fruit. Asking R8.99m Asking R3.6m
that mowing is easier. It also helps • Harvest sweetcorn. To test if it’s ready,
Aerating – If a lawn has dry patches to improve the soil quality below the pinch a kernel- it will release a milky sap
where grass will not grow it needs to grass. when ripe.
CALL FRANCESCA NOW!
Want to know how to improve your garden? FRANCESCABeattie
Contact: Jerida on 073 935 9754 or call 011-469 5051 properties
Address: Plot 17, School Road, Diepsloot.

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