Now is the time to do a couple of late-summer gardening jobs to give your garden a last boost in blooms before autumn arrives.
Make sure to tick off these March jobs:
- Prune, deadhead and shape
Heavy pruning is reserved for the cooler months, but a little bit of light pruning is needed in summer to tidy up flowering and other plants. This makes way for healthy growth and new buds. Prune only to remove faded blooms and damaged leaves.
Remove faded blooms from flowering plants by cutting off the flower stem below the dried-out bloom but just above the first set of healthy leaves. This practice is known as deadheading and is important to ensure healthy growth of flowers.
Now is also a good time to shape up your shrubs. Sculpt the outer growth to improve the shape and thin out the inner growth so that light and air can circulate within the shrub.
- Pamper your plants
Add a general fertiliser to the garden, including potted and hanging plants, to promote healthy plant growth. Consider using organic fertilisers such as compost, which provides essential nutrients and improves the soil structure. Liquid Fertilisers offer as much if not more nutrients that easily seeps to the plant roots.
- Bring in blooms
Now is the perfect time to plant daisies, violas, cosmos and other summer-loving bulbs that will add a burst of colour to your garden.
Make your gardening jobs that much easier and faster with all the right tools. Here is our list of GARDENA must-haves:
- For a precise, clean cut, our go-to pruning choice is the Garden Secateurs Expertcut.
- Make shaping a breeze with Battery Grass and Shrub Shears.
- Plant bulbs quickly and with ease with a Bulb Planter, which always ensure the bulbs are planted at the correct depth.
