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| | | | | Clarence Slockee explores a grevillea garden, Jane Edmanson explores a seaside garden, Josh shares some tops tips for treating pot plants with water repellent soil, Millie Ross shares companion planting tips and Tino Carnevale shares his gardening story. | | | | | | | | |
 | | | | | | | | Tonight 7.30pm on ABC + iview | | | | Jane meets a family who have created a seaside garden that works with the local environment. | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | | | | | Fact Sheet | | | | Whether it's sandy, coastal soils or older potting mixes, many of our growing mediums can become water repellent over time. Josh is finding that one of his indoor plants, a Peace Lily, is not retaining moisture. To cure this, Josh suggests the following – a good old-fashioned dunking! | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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What to plant this weekend | | | | Tropical Climate Zone - Carrots
- Chives
- Silverbeet
- Tomatoes
Subtropical Climate Zone - Beetroot
- Chilli
- Eggplant
- Squash
Arid Climate Zone - Cucumber
- Leeks
- Potatoes
- Rocket
Temperate Climate Zone - Burdock
- Cauliflower
- Kohlrabi
- Parsnip
Cool Climate Zone - Cabbage
- Chicory
- Lettuce
- Parsley
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Jobs for the weekend | | | | Cool Climate Zone - Collect seeds from native daisies such as Brachyscome and Xerochrysum for sowing in winter.
- Now’s the time of year to plant your garlic. Try soaking cloves in diluted seaweed solution overnight before planting.
- If you’ve got hoyas growing indoors, reduce the watering as we head into cooler weather – they prefer to be dry at this time of year.
Subtropical Climate Zone - If you want to try growing oca for their tasty tubers, now’s the time to plant them. Place the tubers in the crisper of the fridge for a few weeks, then plant them out, harvesting before the humidity of summer hits.
- Allow some of your best-performing vegetables to go to seed and store the dried seed in air-tight jars in a cool, dry, and dark place for next season.
- As your palms drop fronds, chop them up or shred them for instant mulch.
Arid Climate Zone - If it’s too dry to grow regular celery, try the native variety, Apium prostratum. It tastes like the more familiar celery and can be grown as a groundcover or in a hanging basket.
- Asian greens are a great crop to try from seed; they’re fast growing, low-fuss and tasty and now’s a great time to sow some!
- Native desert limes are a small, multi-stemmed tree. They’re vigorous, do well in arid areas, and the small, refreshing fruits are packed with nutrition and flavour, so why not find space for one in your garden!
Temperate Climate Zone - Everyone knows about planting trees for wildlife, but what about native grasses? They're important for native animals, and more than a few are rare or threatened. And many make great garden plants!
- If your carnivorous plants have started to wither, don’t despair -they’re just going dormant for winter; just remove leaves as they die back.
- If you’ve had a ripper fig crop this year, why not strike cuttings and share the plant with a friend?
Tropical Climate Zone - Ginger and galangal can be harvested as they start to slow down.
- Feijoa fruit can be ruined by fruit fly, so make sure you’ve got exclusion bags on as they ripen.
- And did you know vanilla comes from the fruit of a climbing, epiphytic orchid? You can grow it in the tropics, but you’ll need to be dedicated; the flowers need hand pollinating and the pods take 9 months to develop.
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