Aug - Potato & Spring Blossom

Perfect Potatoes

Sublime Spring Blossom

If you want the best choice of the freshest potatoes, you really need to grow your own. Potatoes are grown from small tubers known as 'seed potatoes'.

Planting

   - Work in lots of Groganic with the soil to at least a spade depth. Plant seed potatoes 5 cm deep and 30 cm apart, in rows about 75 cm apart.

Care

   - Fertilise using Plants Plus Organic Pelletised Fertiliser, at about one handfull per square metre. 

Potatoes can also be grown in pots, grow bags and old tires. Be sure to water and feed them well.

Harvesting & Storing

   - Early crop potatoes should be eaten very soon after harvest. If you wish to store other varieties, they need to be dried, and then stored in the dark. 
If the skin rubs off easily, the potato is not yet ready to be harvested.

There are many trees suited to Melbourne's climate that provide stunning spring blossoms.

These include; deciduous magnolias,crab apples, ornamental cherries, pears and plums.

For a stunning spring display plant our Spring Favorites;

 - Malus ioensus 'Plena' - Crabapple

 - Prunus 'Snow Fountain' weeping cherry

Planting

When planting your spring blossom tree, mix through plenty of organic matter like Groganic. Water thoroughly and make sure to not let your tree dry out at all for the first year it is in the ground.

Care

Feed in the spring and autumn with a quality organic slow release food such as Plants Plus Organic Pelletised Fertiliser.

In winter give your tree a light pruning to remove any dead, damaged or diseased wood.