Recommended Fertilizers

For leafy Indoors: Nitrosol liquid every two weeks.
For flowering indoors: Kenrose African Violet Food once a month.

Tips for Palms

Palms grown in Sydney suffer from burning tips. This is a consequence of lack of humidity. This is overcome by atomizing foliage regularly with water. All ferns should be kept permanently moist. Pot with a water retaining mix like Tera-cotta and Tub mix. Tree ferns must be watered at the top of the trunk where fronds are emerging.

When mulching the garden, avoid products consisting of mainly the inside of trees; eg, Pine Chip or leaf mulch. These products absorb nitrogen from the soil and sometimes harbor borers, weevils and leaf eating insects.

Mulches that are beneficial in adding nutrient are Lucerne, Pea straw, Sugarcane and Tea tree. Pinebark mulch is neutral and needs replacing less frequently. Autumn and spring are the ideal seasons to fertilise your gardens, lawns and pot plants, because of reduced stress involving temperature, root growth is most active.

• For lawns, I would recommend Organic Life Lawn Food.

• For gardens a combination of cow manure, Garden Gold & Blood & Bone.

• For roses and citrus, straight poultry manure because of high lime content.

• For Azaleas, Gardenia and Camellias, cow manure and regular doses of Epsom Salts or straight Sulphur powder.

• For anything potted, I would only apply any of the liquid or soluble fertilizers available and would alternate brands, using 3 different products.

• To promote flowering on plants, use a liquid fertilizer called Betta-bloom or simply stress your plant with lack of water to wilting stage, then water before dying. This engages the plant into a reproductive phase, thus iniating flowering before seeding.

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