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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Wednesday <strong>November</strong> 15 <strong>2017</strong> 41<br />

Gardening<br />

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Keep planting vegetables for summer<br />

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NOVEMBER IS a great month to<br />

be working out in the garden.<br />

There are masses of new growth<br />

on most plants, new season<br />

vegetables are growing at a fast<br />

rate, summer flowering annuals<br />

are bursting into bloom – it’s all<br />

happening.<br />

Vegetables to be planted this<br />

month are beans (dwarf and runner),<br />

beetroot, cabbage, celery,<br />

corn, cucumber, courgettes, lettuce,<br />

pumpkin, radish, tomatoes<br />

and kumara. Water all developing<br />

vegetable plants regularly but not<br />

excessively.<br />

Ensure you stake and tie up<br />

tomatoes and remove lateral<br />

growth. Apply side dressings of<br />

fertiliser, especially to the “gross”<br />

feeders such as sweetcorn.<br />

Flowering annuals should now<br />

have outstanding displays of<br />

colour. Summer annuals to plant<br />

include; alyssum, ageratum, aster,<br />

candytuft, cornflower, cosmos,<br />

livingstone daisy, marigold,<br />

nemesia, phlox, petunias, salvias,<br />

strawflower and zinnias.<br />

Dead head (the removal<br />

of finished flowers) regularly<br />

throughout the growing season to<br />

encourage continuous blooming.<br />

This is one of the most rewarding<br />

months for cultivating<br />

roses. Plants are often covered in<br />

TIDY: Try to think outside the box when planting a hedge. Right – It’s time to break out the tools and harvest some early summer<br />

vegetables.<br />

wonderful blooms and are usually<br />

disease free. Remove flowers once<br />

they have finished to encourage<br />

further flowering. Fertilise with<br />

fertiliser every five to six weeks<br />

throughout spring/early summer.<br />

This will encourage strong<br />

growth and full blooms. If you<br />

notice signs of disease or pests –<br />

spray immediately. Remember<br />

that once you commit to spraying,<br />

you must follow a regular<br />

regime throughout the season.<br />

Hedges can now be trimmed<br />

(where required) after the initial<br />

spring growth spurt. Continue to<br />

trim on the ‘little and often’ principal<br />

as this will help encourage a<br />

strong dense form.<br />

When planting a hedge, try<br />

and think a little outside the box<br />

and investigate alternative plants<br />

to create an edible or flowering<br />

hedge.<br />

Ensure you do not plant trees<br />

that grow to 8m if you only require<br />

a 2m hedge.<br />

Lawns can be fertilised in<br />

<strong>November</strong> to help create a lush<br />

dense lawn.<br />

This is also possibly the last<br />

month to sow a substantial<br />

new lawn or patch up an existing<br />

lawn before the dry weather<br />

arrives.<br />

Choose grass varieties that are<br />

suitable for your site or a mixture<br />

of grasses which are useful in<br />

creating an all year-round lawn.<br />

Ornamental trees and shrubs<br />

can be fertilised with general<br />

garden fertiliser, coinciding with<br />

active late spring/early summer<br />

growth.<br />

Repeat applications every six<br />

weeks until the hot dry summer<br />

months. Further applications<br />

of mulch can be made now and<br />

throughout summer.<br />

The herb garden should be<br />

thriving in <strong>November</strong>; the<br />

warmer the temperatures, the better<br />

herbs grow.<br />

You may need to ‘thin out’<br />

some of your herbs as they can<br />

grow rather vigorously and<br />

‘swamp’ out neighbouring herbs.<br />

Continue to trim, even if not<br />

eaten as this encourages fresh<br />

new growth.<br />

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