Download NATIONAL MITRE 10 GARDEN CLUB

NATIONAL MITRE 10 GARDEN CLUB
Our local garden club is being incorporated into a new national Mitre 10 Garden Club.
This will bring some changes to the current structure you are used to.
These include:
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10% Rebate discontinued. The cut off date will remain 31st July and your rebate for 2013/2014
will still be issued from 1st September. No more rebate accumulation from 1st August.
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$20 membership fee will be refunded to members who joined after 1 October 2013. See service
desk for refund.
The new Garden Club will offer:
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FREE membership.
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Fly Buys based promotions and special deals.
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Email only format. You will need to have a current email address and Fly Buys card to be a
member.
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Continued monthly emails with seasonal advise, inspiration and how to guides.
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Exclusive promotions on selected products.
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First access to new ranges.
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Regular competitions with automatic purchase entry.
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Your Fly Buys card will be your membership card.
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Your membership will be active in all Mitre 10 stores.
To be part of the new national garden club please fill in the enclosed form with EMAIL ADDRESS &
FLYBUYS NUMBER and return to Napier or Hastings service desk.
You will receive an email from Mitre 10 inviting you to activate your account during June/July. Click on
the links and confirm your details and your account will be activated. You’ll then be entitled to all the
benefits mentioned.
June To-Do List
VEGETABLE GARDEN
Sow spinach, silverbeet, peas, onions &
lettuce seeds and broad beans in warmer
climates.
Plant seedlings of cabbage, cauliflower,
broccoli, winter lettuce, spinach & silverbeet.
Feed caulis, cabbage & broccoli with
PHOSTROGEN or
NITROSOL.
Spray winter veges with CHAMPION COP-
PER to prevent fungal disease.
Thin carrots & other
autumn sown
crops.
Use QUASH to protect seedlings from
slugs & snails
Plant strawberry plants, garlic & shallots.
FRUIT TREES
Start planting deciduous fruit & citrus
trees.
Mulch vegetables & fruit trees with compost.
Feed citrus with Citrus fertiliser.
Start pruning as soon as leaves start dropping.
FLOWER GARDEN
Last chance to plant spring bulbs.
Plant pots with pansies, polys & primula for
winter colour and bulbs for spring.
Spray trees and shrubs with PROTECTOR
OIL to control scale, aphids & mites.
Plan new roses to plant this winter & compost soil in preparation.
Lift dahlia tubers & gladioli corms and store
in a dry place.
use polythene but clean straw, particularly pelletised pea straw
is a good substitute. Place straw around the plants to keep
ripening fruit clean and healthy .
Feeding
Apply general garden fertiliser at planting time. Feed plants with
soluble fertiliser such as Thrive Flower and Fruit in spring to
stimulate growth. Fertilise plants again when fruiting has finished
if leaving the plants in for another season.
Watering
Planting
Plants need to be watered regularly in the growing season and
Plant strawberries from April through to June.
in autumn if it is dry. Reduce watering as berries start to redden.
Strawberries are herbaceous perennials that grow from a leafy
Over-watering at this stage will result in soft flavourless
crown. They send out runners that develop leaves and roots,
strawberries, increasing the chance of botrytis affecting fruit.
forming new plants.
Harvesting
For the first season runners should be removed so that the
plant’s energies go into producing fruit rather than foliage. In the Allow the fruit to become fully coloured before picking. Birds love
ripe strawberries so netting will need to be used to keep them at
second season plants can be left to form runners that are
bay. Remove old leaves and stems when fruiting has finished.
removed and re-planted for the next season’s fruiting.
Pests and Diseases
Strawberries can be left in the garden for three seasons before
Although strawberries are susceptible to a number of pests and
planting new plants. Fruiting will not be as abundant as in the
diseases, don’t let this deter you, as they can be controlled very
first season.
easily.
New plants should always be planted in fresh soil to avoid the
Mites are minute, sucking insects found on the underside of
spread of disease. Strawberries are susceptible to the same
leaves in a fine webbing and cause distortion, speckling and
diseases as potatoes and tomatoes, therefore, avoid planting
silvering of leaves. Spray with Yates Mavrik or Yates Mite Killer.
strawberries in soil that tomatoes and potatoes have been
grown in. Strawberry plants are frost hardy but take care during Aphids are small, green sucking insects that appear on the
underside of leaves. Spray with Yates Mavrik or Yates Fungus
flowering that flowers are not damaged by frost.
Fighter.
Strawberries are adaptable and grow in most sunny situations.
Slugs and Snails can be a problem with ripening fruit. Mulch with
They do not tolerate wet soils.
straw and use McGregor's Slug and Snail pellets.
Plant strawberries in a fertile well drained soil. Traditionally
Leaf spot appears as light brown round spots, sometimes with
strawberries are planted in raised mounds. Mounding improves
red margins. Spray with Yates Fungus Fighter or Yates
the drainage, increases air circulation around plants preventing
Greenguard Fungicide . Yates Copper Oxychloride or Yates
the spread of disease and gives shallow soils more depth. Black
Champ DP can be sprayed at regular intervals as a preventative
polythene can be used to cover the mound before planting. If
against leaf spot.
soil is well drained, mounding is not essential.
Rust appears as small orange spots on the under side of leaves.
Plant strawberries 40cm apart in rows 40cm wide. Where
Spray with Yates Fungus Fighter.
possible, planting rows are best positioned in a north to south
Botrytis - or grey mould - causes fruit to rot and become covered
direction to ensure even ripening of fruit.
in brown-grey spores. Spray with Yates Greenguard Fungicide.
Spread the roots over the mound making sure the crown is level Plants that are not thriving, with distorted yellow leaves, are
with the soil surface. Cover with soil. Firm the soil around the
likely to be infected with a virus. It is essential to plant virus free
plants. If using polythene, plant into holes marked on the
healthy plants. Viruses are spread by aphids. Destroy infected
polythene. Try to keep the holes as small as possible to prevent plants. Do not re-plant runners from plants that may be infected.
weeds growing. Take care not to bury the crown. Water in well
Also remember that birds will try to compete with you for your
after planting. In early spring remove the flowers until the plant
harvest – so ensure that you cover your plants carefully with
has made plenty of leaf growth.
netting. I find it best if this is raised up off the plants – this helps
Mulching
to make sure the fruit remains underneath the netting, rather
than growing up through the holes. You can devise any number
Mulching is very important to suppress weeds, conserve soil
of types of structures, from basic frames to cane pyramid shape,
moisture and keep the fruit clean. Commercial growers use
so long as you can still get in to the fruit - and the birds can’t!
black polythene or straw for this reason. Home gardeners can
Growing Strawberries
Strawberries are among the most popular
and evocative of summer fruits. To my
mind, no kitchen garden or summer
desert is complete without them.
Strawberries are adaptable and grow in
most sunny situations.
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