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Mid May and early June are the right time to plant poppy choose from the wide range of the daisy’s family. Plant them
seedlings to ensure that they weave their magic in your garden in any sunny spot in well-drained, compost-enriched soil. They
this spring. also tolerate a little shade, but on the other hand, not too much
direct sun.
It is also the right time for you to start planting your sweet peas. With
their multitude of sweetly scented pastel blooms, sweet peas are the REMEMBER:
ultimate forerunner of spring and they make excellent cut flowers. Just • Bird feeding station
decide if you are going for the bush or the climbing variety and choose • Get your fine compost for your citrus trees and papaws
a sunny spot in front of your patio, entrance or along a pathway where • Get your slug and snail control
the sight and smell of the flowers can be fully experienced. • Harvest early potatoes
• Look out for weeds
Daisies are a gardener’s best friend as they are cheerful and easy • Cover tender flowers against the frost
to grow and bring a bloom to the garden in late spring. You can • Transplant roses now if necessary.
LAWN:
Think ahead and plant the following now for colour during Winter is many a gardener’s nightmare.
the drab winter months: It means a muddy mess or sad, bare turf.
Make sure you maintain your lawn this
• Hypoestes aristata (Ribbon Bush) winter to keep it looking good. Cut down
• Aloe spp (Aloes) – some of the new hybrid Aloes have a longer or different flowering on mowing, buy some contour lawn
time and can, if planned and grouped properly, ensure colour from autumn right dressing or fine compost for your lawn to
through winter. encourage root development, keep lush
• Leptospermum scoparium ‘Cherry Brandy’ (Australian Tea bush) and healthy growth, and make sure you
• Euryops virgineus (Honey Daisy) water your grass after lawn dressing it.
• Camellia japonica (Common Camellia) Consistently rake your lawn, remove the
• Azalea spp (Azalea) fallen leaves and other debris. Remove
• Your choice of our beautiful Fynbos selection of Protea spp (Sugarbush), Erica spp any broad leaf weeds.
(Heather), Leucospermum (Pincushion), Leucadendron (Cone bush) and many more
• Kniphofia praecox (Red-hot poker).

To purchase natural gardening products, or for more information about how to be eco-friendly,
give Turfnet a call: 073 935 9754/011 469 5051/4. Address: Plot 17, School Road, Diepsloot. 2189.

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