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    Garden Tasks For December

    Keep your garden thriving this festive season

    3 December 2014
    • Time-savers in the garden include mulching to conserve water, dressing up bare spots with flowering pots of annuals, and grouping plants with similar water and shade requirements.
    • If you’re going away, ask a friend to water the garden, mow the lawn and clear post. REMEMBER Container plants dry out quickly in hot weather.
    • Water fuchsias in dry weather, and spray foliage when there is no sun on the leaves, or foliage may get burnt; feed regularly with Nitrosol or Mulitfeed P. Also watch for white fly and spidermite on the underside of leaves and spray with Wonder Gun.
    • If lawn caterpillars are present, spray with Karbaspray according to pack instructions.
    • Yellow and black caterpillars damage leaves and burrow down into the bulbs of amaryllis, nerines and clivias. Dust with Karbadust or spray with Margaret Roberts Biological Caterpillar Insecticide.
    • Position bird nesting boxes or sisal nesting logs high up in a tree where birds will be safe and sheltered from rain.
    • Keep a garden diary for recording planting, flowering and harvesting times – and even include temperatures and rainfall.

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