MyGarden Week2

Now that your little seedlings are doing their thing you need to watch out for fungal diseases, you may want to use a fungicide of some sort, especially for your strawberries and other fruit plants and trees. A quick an easy antifungal spray is a blend of equal parts of milk and water, for other natural fungicide, persticide and herbicide recipes, see the resources section of MyGarden.co.nz
Broad Beans will start to grow rapidly soon so prepare something to support them.
Invite bees into your garden by planting flowering plants you need bees to pollinate your fruit and vege plants. Plant companion plants with your vegetables and flowers to encourage the good bugs into the garden and to repel bad pest and disease problems. Companion Plants are those that complement and support each other because of certain scents and chemicals the companion plants release which repel undesirable bugs, or attract desirable bugs. Herbs can be good for this too so planting herbs in the garden or containers or baskets is a good idea.

Give newly planted fruit trees a good watering twice a week throughout spring and summer, once their leaves have unfurled. Feed all fruit trees and protect from fungal and bacterial diseases and invasive insects.

Hang dangling moth traps around Apple and Pear Trees to protect those tasty fruits from unwanted intruders!

For what to plant see the MyGarden planting calendar under the gardening resources section.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• gardening
• seedlings
• growing
• companion plants
• growing vegetables

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