How to prepare your Lawn for Spring and Summer
Step 1
Aerate Your Lawn – This will promote a healthy root system by providing much needed oxygen and allow watering to get to the subterraneal heart of your grass. Done in Continue reading
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How to Prepare for Summer Vegetables
Do you have temptation to dive in and plant loads of seedlings and handfuls of seeds for Spring and Summer veggies crops?… Before you do, you should consider the needs of the plants so that you don’t have to disturb the soil down the track.
Here are 5 tips on preparing beds for Spring and Summer ‘crops’ Continue reading
3 Top Tips to Maintain the Winter Garden
With the cold approaching fast, it is the perfect time to help protect your gardens, trees and veggie garden from frost and plan for a blooming spring.
Tip 1 - Get on to Bindi’s Now!
Here at Valley Rural Supplies we have a range of products to get on top of Bindi’s before they get on top of you!
Tip 2 - Protect your Trees, Gardens and Veggies from Frost
The best tips to fortify your garden over winter is Continue reading
2 Top Tips For August Gardening
With the weather about to get warmer and Spring about to bloom, we have 2 Top Tips for Gardening in August… Continue reading
Treating Frost Shock in your Plants
Seaweed products have long been renowned with preventing shock when transplanting plants. In addition it is a proven performer for the germination of seeds.
It is thought that Seaweed also helps to improve the thickness of plant cell walls, perhaps this is why it is so useful in protecting plants during and after transplant. The result in Seaweed treated plants is a higher resistance to pest and disease attack and most profoundly in the winter months an improved resistance to Frost. Continue reading
Why Mulch Your Garden for Winter?
What is Mulch and how does it work?
Mulch is simply a layer of natural material, placed on the soil surface, that conserves moisture, protects and adds nutrients to the topsoil, and guards it against extremes of climate.*
Mulches also provide a benefit in evening out fluctuations in soil temperature, keeping soils Continue reading
How to Grow Tasty Treats for Winter Meals
Winter is a great Thyme (excuse the pun!) for devouring yummy casseroles and hearty roasts… So what do you need to do to? Grow your own perfect flavour enhancers!
Rosemary for 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
The Best Black Stallion For Your Property
One of the most worthwhile ways to improve the value of your rural property is to install durable rural fencing. Fencing not only defines your territory, but fences are also a key part of any farm management plan. Good fencing will increase 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