General News
18 July, 2025
BARRY'S CORNER: Gardens
With a touch of winter swinging onto the scene it is time to think about the garden and what could be planted in the next few weeks and months.
Our garden suffered from the lack of moisture from this time last year and still appropriate even now.
Most gardeners faced the same dilemma so it is nothing new. This made it hard on any non native species.
It certainly re enforced the advice to stick with local plants that are familiar with the climate and weather patterns of your region.
Those charming plants that have been growing in Queensland or south Siberia will not always do well in our garden.
Try some exotics by all means but it might take some experimenting with a few by trial and error.
Similar to an area that has been burnt is a good time take advantage of a clean slate and redesign the garden or indeed the farm.
Making good use of planning even if an advisor can help with ideas and another point of view.
For a garden this is the time to construct any new vegetable beds in a new site if the one was not working too well.
You might be looking for extra plantings so a bit of space is required to build more growing area.
Fertility is worth thinking about an application so the weeds grow and will become green manure when they are turned later in the season.
Check if any fruit tree needs a prune.
More experienced gardeners have often handled a similar problem in the past and will have genuine solutions to any problem in the garden and it would be worthwhile chatting to someone down the road who would be only too happy to throw in some ideas that you could useful.
Gardens are not difficult to keep going, the key is a little bit of input consistently rather than once a month splurge.
If every garden had five minutes each and every day it would be so much easier for the gardener and the plot.
Be cause the weather has given us another good lesson there really needs us to take heed of the warnings and really consider local indigenous plants.
There are many of them that take so little water and yet they can be found giving wonderful flowers that last for months and months.