It has been a bitterly cold
winter in the Adelaide Hills with lots of lovely rain. The paddocks are far wetter than they have been for years with much mud under hard hooves and lovely flooded creeks reminding me of
splashing around in my gumboots as a kid: racing stick boats with my sister in a torrent; building little bridges complete with twig hand rails and watercress covering; cantering through the flooded paddocks on my horse.
Spring is just around the corner (thank goodness) with some pear blossoms bursting out already. This will be the first year of our driveway avenue of ornamental pears flowering!
This is the time to spray deciduous fruit trees and grape vines for leaf curl and fungal viruses. You must
spray them just before the buds burst for any success!
Fertilise spring flowering plants with blood & bone and potash.
Plant evergreens if frost has passed.Fertilise citrus at the end of the month.
Plant potatoes, onions, parsley, peas and summer flowers.Fertilise lawns.
