When To Plant Bulbs In South Africa

It looks like an hour glass with a top section sliced off. But fall follows summer, year after year, and then comes winter. It doesn't take much to make this happen, just a vase with a water, a few pebbles; and a little know how.

The water should be completely replaced about every three or four days. They'll stand upright in a tall, narrow vase, but can also be placed in floral foam for added support in shorter, wider containers.

Windflowers bloom in large riots of a variety of colors. Windflowers bloom in spring. They grow in clumps of flowers that look like small daisies, and are useful in landscaping and as ground cover.

New bulbs will naturally sprout from the bottom and sides of the main bulb.Divide bulbs in the late spring or early fall, if they seem crowded, or if they stop blooming. Seeds will produce flowers in three to five years, and bulbs in another two.

Agapanthus plants, however, produce thickened rhizomes and not true bulbs. Allium and agapanthus flowers tower over garden beds or make eye-catching accents in sunny gardens. Despite their similarities, they are not from the same botanical family, but...

Dahlia (Dahlia spp.) is not above getting infected with fungus. Lowering the amount of moisture may help halt or dramatically slow down the growth of the fungi. Chlorothalonil is a fungicide that is effective against gray mold and powdery mildew.

Add 3 inches of compost and mix it to a depth of 6 inches.Dig a hole wide enough to accommodate the paperwhite bulb and 6 inches deep. Paperwhites are a type of narcissus that is sold in the winter for indoor forcing.

Place one lily bulb in each hole with the flat side down and the pointed side up. Lily bulbs grow right below the leaf stalk, so you can dig 3 to 6-inches from the edge of the clump without damaging the main bulbs.

After blooming cut off the flowers of hybrid tulips; allowing hybrid tulips to go to seed depletes bulb nutrients. Grow them near edelweiss, alpine gentians and other low growing perennials that won't cover them up, so the bulbs can get the baking they...

To keep freesia bulbs for several years, the bulbs are dug up right after a killing frost and dried for two weeks. If the bulbs freeze in the ground during the winter, then the bulbs rot after the ground thaws out.

No pinching is needed, since they are self branching. Thinking back on which annuals have been the highest performers, I immediately think of butter daisy. Year after year it reseeds in the flowerbed out by the street where it is subjected to the hot,...

Cabbage family plants can safely be overwintered under cover in buckets Damp sawdust or sand are good packing materials for biennial root crops including beets, carrots, parsnips and turnips because they keep the vegetables from drying out.

Black polythene is very effective for this. Intensive cropping using leafy vegetables to stop light from reaching the ground is another efficient way to ‘clean' the soil of weeds.

But the answer is right there in your garden! Grass clippings make excellent mulch at a time when other mulching materials may be in short supply. Of course, if you have any trees in or near your garden you may find that you have a ready supply.

A terraced vegetable garden stabilized by raw wood follows similar processes, only from the side. There are no rules on the materials you choose provided they don't leach nasty chemicals into the soil, as can happen with treated lumber or landscape timbers.

By the time planting day comes, the soil will be as crumbly as chocolate cake. I won't plant my garlic until October, but between now and then I might sow a quick mustard cover crop to suppress weeds, or use the broadfork to aerate the soil deep down,...

Ripening Green Tomatoes on the Plant Towards the end of the season the race is on to bring home the final fruits before cool weather closes the window of opportunity. Simply pop the fruit(s) into a paper bag then loosely close it at the top.

These branches begin to droop when they're heavy with fruit, and are liable to break. Don't use a wound paint or wrap to try and seal the wound. It's better to use a more powerful tool and make a clean cut than to struggle to force the blade of a lightweight...

Using a Dehydrator to Dry Chili Peppers An alternative to air-drying is to use a dehydrator set to a suitable temperature. The fruits can be picked as soon as the seeds inside have matured, when they will have turned from small and white to full-sized...

You can use taller crops to shade shorter ones, but in scorching weather drastic action may be needed. If it's exceptionally dry, water again a few hours later to recharge all that valuable soil moisture.

Protecting Potatoes from the Cold Containers have the obvious advantage of being portable, so when cold weather threatens it's easy enough to move plants completely under the cover of a greenhouse, polythene tunnel or conservatory.

Selectively removing young fruits is called thinning. Apples and other trees are already full of young fruits, which will grow on to give a delicious crop towards the end of the growing season.

Flowers will help to draw hoverflies and other greenhouse whitefly predators to your garden Other Greenhouse Whitefly Predators If the Alien -like approach of Encarsia is too much, consider one of the whitefly's many other natural enemies, including hoverflies...

Aim to water regularly for consistent soil moisture, which will translate into plenty of well-formed fruits and pods, free of problems such as blossom end rot or cracking. Keep Plants Warm to Extend the Harvest into Fall Later on in the season stragglers...

For more targeted protection, cabbage collars are used to prevent cabbage root flies from laying their eggs. Despite my tongue-in-cheek warfare references, it's important to remember that we're not really in a war against pests.

Harvest cabbages once the heads have firmed up How to Harvest Cabbage Use a sharp knife to cut your cabbages once the heads have firmed up. Unless your soil is naturally alkaline, sprinkle garden lime onto the soil either after you've dug it over, or...

If you're patient, why not lay down plans for a country wine or two? It doesn't have to be grandiose; a self-contained fountain powered by a small electric pump brings the soothing gurgle of water while offering local wildlife somewhere to drink, preen...