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Must-do gardening tasks for spring
Spring is in the air! The weather has begun to warm and shoots of greenery begin to emerge from the ground. So it's time to get back out into the garden to ensure summer is blooming beautiful. These top spring gardening tips will help get you started in the right direction.
- After winter rains, the lawn soil can become compacted. You may need to aerate the soil to allow the lawn to "breathe" and encourage thick, strong growth.
- Weed and renew mulches on garden beds.
- Plant seeds for flowers and vegies for summer.
- Plant herbs.
- Periodic fertilising is imperative from early spring and throughout the growing season.
- Prune hibiscus and also prune plants that flowered in winter and early spring.
- Divide and repot cymbidium orchids after flowering.
- Repot potted plants that are root bound.
- Divide herbaceous clumping plants as new growth resumes.
- Dead head spring annuals and bulbs.