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Watch video | Find a Fact Sheet | | The Power of Potassium
Presenter: Jerry Coleby-Williams, 15/08/2015
Jerry explains the importance of potassium to plants, and shows how to apply it to encourage stronger growth and juicier fruit
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Gardening Australia on iView | Weekly Gardening Action Plan | | Pruning for the best fruit and flowers seems to be on our viewers' minds, so here are some tips that should answer your questions before you get out in the garden this weekend.
Cool Zone
Stone fruit and pome fruit trees have very different requirements when it comes to pruning. Here's a simple guide: A Formative Prune Fact Sheet Subtropical Zone
Keep productive citrus trees in shape with a careful haircut: Making the Citrus Cut Temperate Zone
Roses are easy to prune, but if you want to get the best out of hybrid teas a little more care is required: Making the Cut Fact Sheet Tropical Zone
Using sharp, well-maintained tools to prune is just as important as how you prune. Blunt secateurs can crush plant stems, leaving wounds where diseases can take hold. To avoid this Josh has some tips on secateurs maintenance: Secateur Maintenance Fact Sheet Arid Zone
One of the best crops for arid gardeners is table grapes, but some people find them tricky to prune. Here's how: Time to Prune Grape Vines
And if you want some ideas of what to plant in the vegie patch, don't forget to visit The Vegie Guide or Download the App | Plant Pick | | On this week's show, Josh visits a garden filled with plants from Africa. The plant pick this week is one of those iconic African plants....the aloe.
This genus, belonging to the asphodel (Asphodelaceae) family, contains more than 300 species of evergreen, fleshy-leafed, rosette-forming, sometimes treelike succulents, and is found through southern and tropical Africa to Madagascar and the Arabian Peninsula. They range from low-growing grass-like perennials to trees, shrubs, and scrambling climbers. Aloes are popular landscaping plants in warm dry areas and many can be grown to good effect in containers. The pithy jelly from the leaves of one species, Aloe vera, is so widely used around the world medicinally, as well as cosmetically, that it is often known as the medicine plant.
Aloes flower in winter and spring and will tolerate light frosts but many are tender and all prefer warm dry conditions. They should be planted in a position in full sun with light, very free-draining soil. They can tolerate soils of low fertility. Water when actively growing and flowering, but otherwise keep dry. Numerous species adapt to greenhouse or container conditions quite well. Propagation is from offsets, stem cuttings, or seed. | Gardening Australia Magazine | | SEPTEMBER ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW HARD GARDENING
Tim Entwisle kicks off this section focused on gardening in tough conditions, and the difficulties facing all gardeners as the climate becomes increasingly variable. Tim discusses how Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is tailoring its tree planting program to suit a warmer world.
OLD CRAFTS
This new series explores traditional horticultural skills. First up, Michael McCoy takes his cue from a medieval French garden to fashion decorative trellis from organic materials. Sticks, twigs, bamboo and prunings can all be turned into something that is part sculpture, part framework.
REVAMPED ACTION PLANNER
Monthly tasks, checklists, how-tos and step-by-steps are now packaged in a vibrant new format that is friendlier on the eye, but still packed with all the practical advice gardeners need.
STARTER CROPS
Here are 10 easy vegies perfect for first-timers. Grab a pot or mark out a plot and get on down to the nursery for some seedlings. Then follow our tips for stress-free vegie-growing.
PLANT OF THE MONTH
Don't be intimidated by the boisterousness of a happy wisteria vine. This fragrant climber is easily tamed and shaped for maximum impact with minimum worry. It's also an old favourite for Sophie Thomson, who has a long history with this beautiful plant.
LAYING DOWN THE LAWN
This succinct guide to lawn care explains how to sow lawn from seed, or lay it as fresh turf. There's a list of some of the top modern turf varieties, tips on rejuvenating old lawn with fertiliser and top-dressing, and advice on despatching moss, bindii and bare patches.
DEAD OR RESTING?
This quirky piece has John Patrick musing on the way some plants fake their deaths, how to check a plant's vital signs, and why a plant might become unhappy in the first place.
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
- John Patrick visits a Fiona Brockhoff-designed garden on the Mornington Peninsula
- See inside a Queensland garden where unique mosaic artwork sits in a lush foliage setting
- How do the gardeners at Floriade make 1 million flowers bloom on cue every year?
- Welcome the rainbow lorikeet to your garden and get rid of that pesky budworm
- Tino Carnevale shares some expert growing advice for the humble pumpkin
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