Monthly Garden Guides

Central Landscapes has a wide range of great mulches (all from recycled products or by-products of timber processing) to lock in moisture at the roots of plants. Give it a boost: Apply blood and bone before spreading mulch to add some nitrogen for the plants.

This lovely country garden just got a top-up of our Forest Floor mulch. After the wet winter mulch is the best way to take advantage of all the moisture in the soil.

Tomatoes and other summer vegetables can be planted. Add companion flowers around them for the bees and the salads. Fruit trees require fertilising and install traps to control Guava and codling moths. 

Weed the garden so the plants can flourish, do a pest check on the roses and spread sheep pellets and mulch. Trim proteas, leucadendons but avoid fertilising them. Great time for sowing or repairing lawns.

Prepare for a great summer harvest, condition and feed the soil, get the strawberry bed ready and install climbing frames ready for tomatoes and beans. Add some lemon flavours in the herb garden.

The modern urban garden is undergoing a re-think as the priorities of owners change according to the way they live. In these gardens, landscaped by Rochford Landscapes to plans by Shafer Design Studio, we see a mix of soft and hard surfaces with planting in and around paths and seating...

Give the garden a good clean-up and apply fertiliser around shrubs. Nature’s best planting time, so get into the garden with shrubs, trees and perennials. Sow lawn seed and plant spring flowering bulbs.

The vegetable garden is in full swing, harvest frequently to keep plants producing, water morning and evening evening and keep an eye out for insect damage. Harvest the summer berries and thin out developing autumn fruit to ensure a better quality crop.

The summer garden is in full swing, make sure you harvest fast growing vegetables regularly to keep plants producing. Watering in the cooler morning and evening hours is important now, and don’t forget to leave some water out for the birds.

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Feed autumn fruiting plants, cover the berry crops with bird netting, plant sunflowers and pot up herbs as Christmas presents.

Do a weed clean up before Christmas, perfect time to mulch the garden, take care of potted plants if you’re going on holiday.