What to do in your garden during December

In dry continental and highveld summer-rainfall regions do the following the garden.

Plant and Sow

Annuals

Sow all summer-flowering annuals like:

Vegetables

Sow vegetables like:

General garden maintenance

• Spray apples, pears and quinces against codling moth, and peaches against fruit fly.
• Water citrus trees well every three weeks and spray against citrus psylla; water other fruit trees thoroughly every second week.
• Deadhead daisy bushes regularly to prolong their flowering period; remember to disbud dahlias at regular intervals.
• Keep the soil well mulched.
• Consider installing a rainwater tank.
  • grown plants do best if watered with rainwater.
• Stake dahlias and water and fertilize them regularly.
• Mulch roses well.
• Cut back chrysanthemums.
• Deadhead roses regularly.
• Sow lawn seed.