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Winter The Ideal Time To Spray
Recently you may have noticed Groundsel flowering, among other weeds. Winter is an ideal time to get on top of out of control weeds. There are a variety of different herbicides that our friendly team can recommend to eliminate your particular infestation.
The ONE product our team all agree on is Continue reading
Get To Leafminer Before It Gets A Hold On Your Citrus Trees
What is a Leafminer?
Technically the Citrus leafminer, Phyllocnistis citrella, is a small moth pest of citrus.
How do they Damage Citrus Plants?
Damage is caused by the larvae as they mine immature foliage. Twisted and curled leaves are generally the first symptoms noticed. Severe infestations, (an average of two or more mines per leaf) can retard the growth Continue reading
How to Protect Your Fruit Trees this Spring and Summer from Fruit Fly (QFF)
Why are Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF) such a pest?
The life of the Queensland Fruit Fly consists of breeding, infiltrating your crop, devouring and despoiling the fruits of your labour, growing to maturity and repeating the cycle in a life span of just four weeks!
Let’s meet the Enemy…
- There are over 250 species of fruit fly in the family Tephritidae which occur in Australia but only Continue reading
Why Grassmaster Is So Successful For Your Lawn
Grassmaster’s new formulation using bio-catalyst protected high-analysis nitrogen and phosphate fertilisers to produce excellent results for your lawn, turf, pasture, fairways and resorts. With it’s easy to spread granules, the high level of humic acid in Grassmaster not only stimulates beneficial soil fungi, but also Continue reading
3 Important Tips to Prepare For Successfully Transplanting Trees and Shrubs
Autumn and Winter are the best times to transplant trees in this area. The cool weather reduces the risk of stress by the plant or tree. In addition the soil is still warm enough to encourage the roots to grow.
Prepare…
- Build up the Plant/Trees health by applying weekly applications of Continue reading
Why You Need to Start Thinking About Bindis Right Now
What is Bindi?
Horticoultralist and Gardeing Guru Jerry Coleby-Williams says… “Bindii, Soliva sessilis, is a common lawn weed. It’s an annual, that is a low-growing, ground hugging plant. They germinate as seed during the start of the cool seasons, flower in late winter to spring, and set lots of small, burred seed. Most people are picking them out of their feet when they realise it’s been growing in their garden for ages…”*
The best time to eradicate Bindi is Continue reading
3 Easy Ways to Grow Your Own Potatoes
Here are the basics for Growing Your Own Potatoes
This is a great little project for all the family! And a great way for kids to learn about growing food…plus they can get super dirty in the process!
Growing in the ground
- Prepare the soil by digging in plenty of Continue reading
8 Tips to Preparing your Garden for Drought
Here is our Top 8 tips to Drought Proof your Garden.
According to Local Council statistics… the average household uses 170,000 litres of water every year. That’s enough to fill four backyard swimming pools. All this water is sprinkled, squirted, dripped, gushed and quite often wasted.
How much water do we use outdoors? *
An average tap flows at up to 
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