Digger Dan's Garden Tips
Digger Dan brings you timely advice for your you and your garden every month.
Tips for this month:
- Let's pretend its Summer...
- Table top tomato
- Love that liquid feed...
- Seeds to sow now...
- Wise watering...
- Pests & Disease...
- Gladioli are the new dahlias...
- Spring Flowering Bulbs...
- Seed-saving...
- Controlling growth...
- The Lawn in February...
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Kowhai Caterpillars Are Active:
Yes more greedy caterpillars - this time it's our native kowhai moth caterpillar, difficult to see on branches on kowhai branches but munching leaves at this time of the year. Control is not always necessary, but foliage can take a while to re-grow. If you prefer spray with Kiwicare 'No Caterpillars' or dust with Derris Dust. Cabbage tree caterpillars can be controlled in the same way.
Digger Dan's Tip of the Month
Seeds to sow now...
Keen vegetable growers can sow rows of beetroot and carrots and start the brassica season off: cabbages, cauliflower and broccoli etc.... Read More »
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