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No. Wait until the Melbourne Cup day or when the apple flower leaves fall or you can easily sit down at the naked gardening point. Or you can plant them in pots, leave them in sunlight on their way to work, or leave them in rain, then take them to the interiors at night.

Ants seem to avoid the seeds left by last year’s fell tomatoes, which can give you tomato plants. If you see that tomato seedlings appear, it is the perfect time to sew new shrubs.

Dunno. History is a guide, then ‘probably yes’, but while Canberra gets more bitumen and home air conditioning every year, the city is slowly warming up. This means that we probably have a late freezing chance of choosing the Melbourne Cup winner. Melbourne Cup winners tend to be fast. Most summer vegetables grow slowly in cold soils and continue to grow slowly even when the soil warms up.

If the stars shine brightly and you need a jacket to go out, a frost is likely. If the jacket needs to be a raincoat, it will probably not be a frost as long as it continues to rain most of the night. Even better, check the weather forecast. Meteorological Office may not be very reliable in predicting rain-possible showering about ‘frequent estimates’ frequent estimates are as beneficial to a five-year-old child to clean their bedrooms. But they do a perfect job to predict the frosts.

Yes. Mow grass will pull back weeds that grow faster than the grass and encourage the grass to thickening. It developed to eaten grass and replaced her sheep or kangaroo teeth.

Not personally, but my husband has a small lane mow in front of the house. Up to 30 kangaroo, Wallabies and grass eaters will make more unnecessary. But even Roos doesn’t eat weeds, which is a reason for being ‘weeds’.

Choose your favorite annuals from spreading petunias to California poppy or dozens of other annuals where garden centers are in stock. Feed them weakly and weekly.

Yes, but you need at least four species, because each one will only bloom during the season. There are hundreds and happy reading for nursery catalogs, so you can decide which ones will be planted. The longest florists in our garden are the federation chamomiles with the spring and even the spring of winter and even their great grandmothers. Read the label or catalog description for flowering times.

First buy your rose shrubs. Call those who say ‘long blooming’ or encouraging words. Many Floribundas, such as refrigerator, will bloom most of the year, such as ‘Patio Roses’ and ‘carpet roses’. None of this makes well -cut flowers except small poses. Hybrid tea roses – long, prickly legs – have long stems to provide perfectly cut flowers. Unless it creates buds or flowers, it now cut the hybrid teas now about one third. In this case, cut is at least 30 cm stalks every time you choose the roses. Weekly feeding, Malch is good, come to an arrangement with your expenses, as soon as you drop your leaves, you should have every rose prickly and roses. The more nutrition, pruning and irrigation, the more generous the roses.

Note: It is neither simple nor easy to reach an agreement on who get your roses with Possum. Look at the previous and future columns.

Cosset year annuals, Dahlias (lasting about eight weeks to selection) or sew the gladioli in the next month. After the end of November, your roses are very pruned, then feed the rose bushes meticulously and water and hope that the weather is gentle.

Dig, poison (‘best’ herbisit even if the frogs and other non -target species) or the whip will put them on the ground level, then wait for three months for the decay of the malch and weeds of at least 60 cm deep. Or take a goat, but don’t blame me when the rest of your garden and the neighbors escape and eat. Also check that none of your weeds are poisonous for goats.

See. Number 2, so ‘not yet’.

Spring onions, potatoes, peas, snow peas, radish, rocket, chicory, fruit trees, potted herbs, asparagus and rawen roots, pots of pot artichoke seedlings

Do not make your vegetables and flowers until you get a little extraordinary, a little grass mowing, a fruit tree or the bottom of the ground and the soil is warmed up. Now the most important job in the garden is to sit in the sun with a long glass of something delicious and enjoy the short season that is not too hot, very cold and Mozzies (mostly) yet bite yet.