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Gardening

July in the Garden

GARDEN TO DO LIST
• Fix uneven and worn-out garden paths.
• Paint your garden gates a new colour.
• Lavish a new coat of paint on your trusty old wheelbarrow to
prevent rust. It is an expensive piece of garden equipment to
replace.
• Have your lawnmower and weedeater serviced.
• Sharpen (or have sharpened) all pruners, loppers, and hedge
cutters.
• Repair retaining walls and fill the cavities of those built with
custom-made retaining blocks with fresh soil mixed with compost
and bone meal to be ready for holding new cascading and
groundcovering plants.
PLANT AND SOW

• Ferns are not only trendy but have great air-purifying benefits too.
Plant some easy-to-grow species in your garden or in pots, such as GARDENER OF THE MONTH
the dainty maidenhair, striking yellow sword fern, tough holly fern
and evergreen leatherleaf fern varieties. Oriel Mamburu is recognised for his exceptional leadership
• Plant colourful flowers in your garden, such as pansies, violas, and dedication as the manager of the Turfnet team in
snapdragons, calendula, primulas and gazanias. Fourways Gardens Estate.
• There’s still time to sow late plantings of green peas, lettuce,
spinach, cabbage and carrots.
PRUNE AND TRIM • To keep your vegetable garden healthy and strong, continue to

• July is a great time to remove any dead wood, leaves and diseased water deeply once a week.
branches. • Effortlessly add colour to your patio by putting mature bedding
• Pinch off faded flowers from winter-flowering annuals such as plants and flowering bulbs, sold in individual containers, into a
pansies, violas and poppies. single, large container. Make up your own colour combinations or
• When pruning hydrangeas, remove all damaged, diseased or dead combine white freesias with pansies and Bellis perennis.
growth. Cut back the stems above thick, round, green buds.
• Pruning roses encourages bigger, better blooms. Mid-July to FROST-HARDY PLANTS/SHRUBS
mid-August is a good time to prune hybrid roses, tea roses and • Anisodontea scabrosa • Leonotis leonorus
miniature roses. Water once a week now to allow them to rest. • Barleria albostelata • Mundulea sericea
Seal cuts thicker than a pencil with Steriseal and spray with Lime • Bauhinia tomentosa • Ocimum labiatum
Sulphur. • Buddleja auriculata/
• Cut back trees that are getting too big. • Osteospermum species
saligna/salvifolia • Pavowia praemorsa
EXPERT TIPS • Dyschoriste rogersii • Ploygala species
• Freylinia tropica
• Rhamnus prinoides
• To encourage continued flowering all through winter and into • Grewia occidentalis • Salvia species
spring, plant stocks and Iceland poppies. • Halleria elliptica

To purchase natural gardening products, or for more information about how to be eco-friendly, contact Turfnet on
Tel no: (011) 464-5088 or Mobile no: 073 935 9754. Alternatively, email: Jerida@mweb.co.za, or visit www.turfgreen.co.za
Address: Plot 17, School Road, Diepsloot. 2187.

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