Soil

• It is also time to feed the whole garden because the next few months are like a second spring and there is warmth and moisture to make plants leap into growth and flower. So out with Baileys Blood and Bone Mix or Baileys Soil Matters Garden; then spread the good news about.
• Mulch with Moisture Mulch and lightly fertilise tropical trees as they are still growing. Baileys Grow It Local Fruit & Citrus fertiliser is formulated for promoting growth, flower and fruit production.

Vegetable & Herbs

• Keep feeding and watering runner beans and peas with Baileys Soil Matters Garden, harvest regularly to get the maximum crop. Once finished cut the plant to the ground but leave the nitrogen rich root system to improve the soil.
• Feed chillies and capsicum with an organic-based fertiliser like Baileys Soil Matters Garden, a small handful once a month is perfect, water in immediately.
  
  

Fruit & Citrus 

• All citrus trees are surface feeders and do not like root competition from trees or shrubs. They need to be fed little and often every three months. Use a quality all purpose granular fertiliser like Baileys Soil Matters Garden or Fruit & Citrus. 
• Almond, cherry and plum trees should be fed twice a year, once now then again in Spring, feed with an organic-based fertiliser like Baileys Soil Matters Garden.
• Avocadoes should be fed every 3 months, little and often. 
  
  

Flowers & Ornaments

• Roses can be given a trim now taking as much of 1/3 of growth off. One of the easiest ways of pruning bush or shrub roses is called ''a half by a half by a pencil''. Start by working out the halfway point between the base of the bush and the tallest growth, read more on Growing Radiant Roses in WA.

Vegetables & Herbs

• When growing vegies in pots, containers or when constructing a raised garden bed make sure you use Baileys Veg & Herb Premium Planting Mix. It is ready to use straight from the bag and is perfect for growing an abundant and healthy crop. 
• Tall growing, climbing plants will need some form of supporting structure or device.  This can be as simple as a 2-metre-high wooden stake or a sheet of weld-mesh against a wall. 

Fruits & Vegetables 

• Lift pumpkins and squash off wet soil by placing on a strip of wood or an upturned clay saucer to prevent rot setting in before you harvest.
• Time to harvest mature pumpkins, squash, cucumber, radish, sweet corn, tomato and chilli. With pumpkins wait till the stalk begin to shrivel. Cut the fruit off the vine leaving about 10 to 15cm length of stalk still attached. Not only is this a useful handle but it also helps the harvested pumpkins last longer in storage. Also leave in the full sun to harden off for a couple of weeks before moving under cover.
  
• How do you tell when apples are ready to pick? Take a fruit in the palm of your hand, lift slightly and twist. If it comes away easily then it's ripe.
  
• Prune peach and nectarine after fruiting has finished by taking off about 1/3 of total growth concentrating on stems that bore fruit this summer.  
  

• The combination of warm days, long sunlight hours and increasing rain makes for great lawn growing conditions, and your lawn is likely in need of some TLC after a hot summer. 
• Mow lawns high so that leaves shade the root system.
• Regular mowing helps reduce weed infestation.
• Water your lawn right after mowing to stop the newly exposed blades of grass from burning.
• Compost lawn clippings to add to your garden as fertiliser. However, if you have used herbicides including weed and feed formulations on your lawn then it's best to dispose of the clippings.
• When the soil temperature drops in winter, we recommend moving to foliar applications only, so fertilise early March and again mid-April to early May using a granular fertiliser like Baileys Energy Turf or 3.1.1. Plus.
• To maintain that professional colour and finish, apply Turfect Rapid Green between granular applications - every 4 weeks.  

Vegetables & Herbs

• The extreme heat often leads to blossom end rot in tomato and capsicum. Brown patches appear at the base of the fruit at the opposite end to the stem. Also, splits appear in tomato fruits and sometimes white blotches which are sunburn show up on fruits that are exposed to direct sun. Use Baileys Moisture Mulch to keep the soil evenly moist, water daily or set them up on a drip system with a timer.

Fruits

• If you grow peaches, nectarines, mandarins, guava, feijoa or Aztec fruit without protection you are unlikely to eat one piece of clean fruit for the year.  Not a very profitable or worthwhile exercise.  Read more on Fighting Fruit Fly.