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13/05/2022

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13/03/2022

26/01/2022

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17/01/2022

🐛🦋 Catterpillars and Butterflies 🦋🐛

Caterpillars stripping your swan plants bare?

Butterfly caterpillar host plants:

Red and Yellow Admiral - stinging nettles
Long-tailed and Southern Blue - legumes (pea family) including clovers, trefoil and medics
Rauparaha's and Coastal Copper - Wire Vine (pohuehue) and creeping pohuehue
Glade Copper - Large leafed pohuehue
Monarch - Swan plant

17/01/2022

🦟 Mosquitoes 🦟
....How to Reduce Mosquitoes Around Your Property.....

Remove Standing Water - This is the most effective DIY method for reducing mosquitoes around your property. Take a walk around your property and look for buckets, children’s toys, loose pool covers, shallow areas in your driveway or lawn, clogged rain gutters, pet dishes, or other areas where water collects in your landscaping, and other places with standing water. Remove or eliminate as many as you can.

Eliminate Excess Moisture – It is also helpful to get rid of garden damp areas with as they will encourage mosquitoes (as well as other pests), and they could turn into areas of standing water if the drainage is not improved. Pay careful attention to shaded places that do not dry out in the sun.

Cut Back Foliage - Cutting back the foliage around your house has a couple of benefits when it comes to reducing mosquitoes around your property: it allows the sun to reach more areas of your garden, which helps reduce humidity and you reduce foliage where adult mosquitoes can rest during the day. Trim bushes and shrubbery, especially close to your house or in the areas where you spend most of your time outdoors. Make sure to keep your lawn grass trimmed as well.

Use Insect Repellent - Use an insect repellent on exposed skin, or if you are not comfortable spraying it on your skin, you can spray it on your clothes instead.

Set Out Fans – When sitting outside a fan or two in the area can help because mosquitoes are not strong fliers and strong air currents will disturb their flight and deter them from the area.

01/12/2021

** Watering your lawn **

Lush green healthy lawns need water for growth. However, the water is taken up by roots and not leaves; wet leaves promote disease and shallow water evaporates off before roots can absorb it. When required water should be applied so that it seeps deep to where deep rooting grasses can reach it and it will not evaporate off. Many weeds have large root systems and are better able to survive in dry conditions so they can out-compete the lawn grass, so don’t let your lawn suffer drought stress.

When required, water lawns thoroughly in the morning. Because water on the grass or the soil surface evaporates off quickly thoroughly watering once or twice a week is preferable to light watering frequently.

Don’t let your lawn soil become dry deep down. During very hot dry conditions some dry soils do not absorb water well and the water runs off rather than percolating down through the soil to the deep roots.

The addition of gypsum to lawn soils helps break up compacted clay soils and improves loam and water movement deep into the soil.