Your winter gardening will get a whole lot easier with these simple tips:
- Prune – roses, hydrangeas, deciduous fruit trees, and grapes.
- Planting – flowering annuals such as poppies, stock, snapdragon, sweet peas.
- Keep planting winter veggies such as kale, broccolini and Asian greens, snow peas, potatoes, spring onions, shallots, cabbage, and leeks.
- Herbs galore can be planted: dill, coriander, fennel, and sorrel.
- Cooler weather means ease of gardening activities without the heat. Get those big garden projects started.
- Clean up and collect deciduous tree foliage for the compost heap or mulch.
- General pruning of any damaged or overgrown plants.
- Plant spring flowering bulbs.
- Seedlings – set up mini or large-scale hot houses to control warmth and humidity.
- Keep an eye out for Bindi in the lawn and treat accordingly.
- Fertilise your citrus.
- Re-mulch your garden after the summer-autumn seasons.
- Start adding compost to existing garden beds – veggie or flowering gardens in preparation for spring plantings.
- Plant asparagus and rhubarb crowns.
- Strawberries can still be planted.
- Plant deciduous ornamental and fruiting trees and climbers, now available in most garden centres.
