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23.01.2022 Part of a lovely hedge trim tidy up Photo don’t do it justice

23.01.2022 Another gorgeous winters day today

22.01.2022 Love seeing and smelling these beauties at the front door

20.01.2022 Wishing everyone a Happy and healthy Easter from our family to yours

19.01.2022 A cute little helper today while we put a shed together on this rainy day

18.01.2022 Cheeky end to the weekend but remember us for your hedges and gardening needs

15.01.2022 Competition time people With all this cold weather we feel like we need to share the heat All you have to do is ... - Like our business page - Tag 2 friends on original post - Share original post You could win 5 x 20kg bags of red gum firewood Winner will be announced Friday at 5pm.

13.01.2022 Spring is coming

13.01.2022 Nice day out for the trimmer

13.01.2022 Fresh and foggy start to the day. Come on sunshine

12.01.2022 How good is all this early spring rain.

12.01.2022 We love being able to make a difference

10.01.2022 This has been a beautiful transformation for a very beautiful client. Consisting of trimming a lot of overgrown plants, pulling out some trees, pulling out most of the long narrow driveway of ground covers and weeds and refreshing with some mulch and finishing up with cleaning the exposed concrete on the patio

09.01.2022 Great advice on the garlic. We planted ours 2 weeks ago. 7.5 months to go

08.01.2022 Sneaking in some jobs before the rain

08.01.2022 We asked our birthday boy to help us get the winner for 5 bags of redgum firewood The winner is Ali Wightwick Please send us a msg to organise pick up. Congratulations Ali

07.01.2022 Lovely yard to mow and to knock over before the heat kicks in. Another happy client

07.01.2022 One of our favourite frangipanis coming out again

07.01.2022 Feeding Fruit trees in late winter: If you haven’t already you need to feed all of your fruit trees now. This is the most important feed of the year for them in... my opinion and one that a lot of people miss. Fruit trees particularly deciduous ones have been dormant over winter and as the daylight hours increase and the soil slowly warms up it triggers the tree into running sap flow and enzymes to the buds that swell and flower. Fruit trees work hard at this time year producing blossoms and leaves simultaneously and can do with some help to set them up for a good fruiting season. This also applies to citrus and your evergreen fruit trees as well. Feeding fruit tree sounds easy but I should point out a couple of things so that we are all on the same page. Fruit trees feed from feeder roots that grow out from larger anchor roots and are quite fine and fibrous start about 20-30mm below the surface and they grow out to the edge of their canopy or drip line. They do this so that leaves and particularly fruit that may fall from them eventually rots down and provides some nourishment for them in their natural habitats. In our backyards or orchards we gather up fruit and some of the leaves depending on what sort of trees they are so as to not infect them with things like brown rot, curly leaf and whole host of other things we don’t want on our trees. So we actually inadvertently take away some of their nourishment so It is important to supplement them when they need it. So when feeding your fruit trees don’t be tempted to put it around the trunk or base, any food you apply needs to go around the drip line of the tree where they feed from to get the maximum benefit of what you feed them. In large pots this also applies, in smaller pots it doesn’t matter at all. If they are espaliers yes they too have a drip line and it is directly under their canopy. So what to feed them? I make a mix of the following things and this is why. 1. The first thing I think about is I wont my fruit trees to have a good flourish of strong blooms, so I get out some suphlate of potash (wood ash sifted is also ok)as part of the mix, and as per the directions on the packet, in the case of using just ash about 1 x handful per square metre of application. This encourages good strong blossoms and healthy strong fruit. 2. Next thing to think about it building healthy fruit stems, its is one thing to produce them but it is another to stop a lot of fruit drop, so I use a small amount of either dolomite lime, or a liquid form of dolomite (eco -flow Dolomite) this adds a soluble form of calcium into the soil to help built strong fruit stems on your trees, that way you limit fruit drop and you get to thin the fruit instead of the tree dropping it on you. 3. Last but not least you need to apply a well balanced organic fertiliser like a pelletised manure , or Giganic by Neutrog, or what ever you feel works for you. This will nourish your trees for the leaves and growth they will put on in the coming few months. Feeding citrus trees you will need to obtain a citrus specific fertiliser for them as their requirements are different from other fruit trees, but should also be supplemented with items, 1 & 2, and a feed of trace minerals generally in late winter when they are looking a little yellow or showing signs of deficiency. I hope this gives you a little insight into feeding your fruit trees, and by the way this is the biggest feed I apply to them, I only use the pelletised manure type fertiliser at the change of each season from there on until the next Late winter! For more info on edible gardening you can obtain a copy of my book at https://ediblegarden.webs.com/apps/webstore/ or book a consultation full consult, general consult, or dedicated consult, varying costs to help your needs at www.craigcastree.com.au

06.01.2022 The gardens are loving more rain today

06.01.2022 Nice to have seen some sunshine this week

05.01.2022 When everyday is take your kids to work day care of remote learning

04.01.2022 Getting the job done today for another one of our regular clients. The pittosporums cut right back they where very over grown an causing his gutters to block up. Another very happy client..

03.01.2022 Was a great winters day to be out side the smell of fresh cut grass never gets old.

02.01.2022 Some before and afters of today’s clean up and mulching job. One very happy client