Patricia's Blog

Many gardens will have suffered as a result of the unseasonal storms yesterday which swept across the island.  Although gardens were in great need of rain,  so much in such a short time damaged many plants.  Try and dead head all you can as quickly as possible or the dead heads may go mouldy causing problems later on.  Cut back branches which may have been broken and use this opportunity of the soil being moist to plant any new plants before hopefully the sunny warm weather returns.

This month you should be feeding your fruit and nut trees again, but not loquats or pomegranates.  If you look at them closely you will see lots of new leaves and you need to give these a boost with some nitrogen for good strong growth.   Mature trees need about 3 mugfuls of 20.0.0 fertiliser around the base of the tree, whilst young trees need one mugful.  ( A mugful equates to about 300 grams). Normally rainfall will dilute this but as we haven't been having much lately you will have to use some of that water you have saved to water it in. The trees won't need feeding again until December.