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Winter in the garden - July

July is still a great time to be planting winter veges including leafy greens, onions and brassicas. In the fruit garden it's all about planting new season fruit trees and the Kiwi favourite of strawberries. To liven up your garden add some beautiful winter blooms.

Check which winter greens are suitable to plant in your region, along with tasty herbs for a flavour punch to winter meals. It's also time to start thinking about spuds and which varieties you'll be planting in the coming months.

Mid winter showcases a number of flowering shrubs that offer respite from the cold. Many fragrant flowers like Daphne, viburnum, winter sweet and witch hazel are in bloom this month. Plant up pots, containers and hanging baskets with potted colour to brighten up the garden.

In the fruit garden it’s all about planting new season fruit trees, strawberries, harvesting citrus and pruning.

Harvest time is from seedling planting to harvest. For seeds, depending on variety, it will take an extra 6-8 weeks from germination to planting.

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Our handy calendar shows you when to plant in your region, including harvest dates.

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Lemon Growing Guide

This time of the year's great to start planting:

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The Wairarapa Vegetable Gardener's Diary

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Plant

Bok choi, cabbage, garlic, shallots, mesclun, mizuna, onion, peas, radish, silverbeet, spinach, asparagus, broad beans.

Harvest

Bok choi, cabbage, kale, leek, lettuce, mesclun, onions, peas, radish, silverbeet, spinach.

Maintenance

  • Apply Tui Organic Seaweed Plant Tonic to help plants cope with the cooler weather and frost.
  • Lay Tui Quash slug & snail control stop these pests munching on your plants.
  • Time to start planning what to grow and sow for the spring vegetable garden.
  • If you're growing from seed it is important to use a light, free draining mix, like Tui Seed Raising Mix to get your seeds off to the best start.
  • Keep your garden weed free by weeding around your crops at least once a week.
  • Add a layer of Tui Pea Straw Mulch to help suppress weeds and replenish the soil with organic material.
  • Prepare to dig in green crops sown in autumn.

The Wairarapa Fruit Gardener's Diary

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Plant

Apple, pear, raspberry, strawberry, blueberry, blackberry, feijoa, cranberry, Chilean guava, plum, peach.

Harvest

Citrus - lemon, lime, mandarin, grapefruit, orange, feijoa.

Maintenance

  • Prepare beds by working soil over with a fork, blend in sheep pellets, a layer of Strawberry Mix and Strawberry Food prior to planting.
  • In frost prone areas or for sensitive plants, protect tender fruit trees with frost cloth.
  • Spray deciduous fruits trees with a winter clean up spray (Lime Sulphur) to remove any lingering pests and diseases.
  • Stake all young fruit trees to enable to roots to anchor themselves into the soil for the first few seasons.
  • Continue planting fruit trees.
  • Prune apples and pears.
  • Avoid pruning peaches and plums in winter because it can spread the silver leaf virus. These fruits should be pruned in summer to limit its spread.

The Wairarapa Flower Gardener's Diary

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Plant

Roses, Daphne, lily, gladiolus, cyclamen, forget-me-nots, calendula, polyanthus, flowering kale, poppy, primula, viola, pansy, sweet William, alyssum.


PICK

Winter sweet, camellias, viburnum, wallflowers, winter roses, hellebores, dianthus, leucadendrons, violets, daphne, iberis, flowering kale, japonica.

Maintenance

  • Blend in a layer of Tui Super Sheep Pellets to spring flower beds and allow to settle in for a month or so prior to planting.
  • Apply Tui Bulb Food to existing bulbs plantings.
  • Plant spring flowering bulbs a long as the ground is not too wet, otherwise plant in pots and containers using Tui Bulb Mix potting mix
  • Apply Tui Organic Seaweed Plant Tonic to help plants cope with the cooler temperatures and frost.
  • Sow seeds of spring flowering annuals into Tui Seed Raising mix.
  • Slugs and snails are the main problem, they will munch through tender shoots and leaves of newly planted flowers.
  • Lay Tui Quash slug and snail pellets to control these pests, or get the kids to go on a ‘snail hunt’ for fun.
  • Prune and then spray roses with a suitable rose spray to combat insects and diseases.
  • Remove all prunings and fallen leaves from under the plants.
  • Keep on top of weeds to prevent major problems with them in spring. Remove weeds from empty garden beds as soon as anything appears. A thick layer of mulch will help suppress weeds.