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- Fertilise your lawn to keep it greener over the cooler months. Use a hose feeder if you’re lazy, or water in pelleted forms on a cool day

 

- Buy spring flowering bulbs this week in preparation for their planting time from next week until May. If you want to chill before planting only do so a couple of weeks before they go into the ground. When planting out hippeastrums, dig in some well-rotted manure and plant with the neck of the bulb above ground. They do equally well in pots too, and look great if you have a collection on an old wire frame pot stand - if planted out in traditional terracotta. Be careful of those rascal snails though, they love to eat the new leaves. Lure them with a beer trap, sink a half cut can of beer into the soil. The snails and slugs crawl in, get drunk, then can't get out - at least they’ll die merry. Check out www.tesselaar.net.au or www.gardenexpress.com.au which have a great range of bulbs to choose from.