General gardening advice - healthy gardens and plants

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How to take a cutting/propagate cuttings After raiding your garden or a friend’s garden for a handful of cuttings, here is how to successfully propagate cutting.

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Our Premium Potting Mix is now more advanced Searles Premium Advanced Potting Mix is boosted with 50% more fertiliser* and 50% more wetting agent* making growing flowers and foliage in containers and pots even more successful. Take a look what's in our the new formula.

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Control ants in the garden When it comes to gardening, ants can be troublesome and sometimes downright painful, but did you know there is an easy solution to control these biting menaces. Ants can create many problems in the garden, such as building mounds in lawns, creating dry water repellent soils (especially in pot plants), spreading other pest activity such as scale and aphids not to mention the painful bites of many ants, such as the green ant or bull ant. More Info

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Indoor plant care As the days get cooler, there is no reason to stop enjoying gardening. Actually, you can enjoy warmth and comfort by doing some gardening indoors. As winter draws closer there are a couple of things you need to do to enjoy superb indoor plants. Firstly, move indoor plants to the brighter, warmer areas of the house. Indoor plants still require some light to grow properly. However, don't position indoor plants in direct sunlight as the leaves can still burn, even in winter. An ideal position is in a brightly lit room with large window areas, but not in direct sunlight. More Info

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How to control and treat leaf burn of plant leaves All sorts of plants can be affected by leaf burn, particularly during the hottest times of the year. Leaf burn on plants looks terrible and is frustrating, but there are some easy precautions you can take to avoid this problem. Here's how

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Growing plants from seed tips There are two main methods of sowing seeds to produce wonderful crops of vegetables, herbs and brilliant displays of stunning flowers. These two methods are direct sowing, or sowing into germination trays for transplanting later. More Info

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Pot plant maintainence and plant care We often wonder what gardening jobs we can do during the plant's non growing times. In fact there are several important tasks we can undertake to ensure our gardens stay beautiful all year, one of which is to give our pot plants an overhaul. Here is what to do

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Gardening tips for dry weather - climate When the weather turns hot and dry it can sometimes make gardening difficult, but did you know that with a few simple tricks, you can easily create a flourishing garden in dry times. Here's how

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Winter watering and gardening care During winter, there are some handy tips and tricks for healthy winter gardens. Now that the cooler weather of winter is here, gardens don't loose as much water to evaporation as they do in summer. Because of this, soils can easily waterlog if over watered, particularly on the southern side of homes and in well shaded areas. More Info

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