WARMING WINTER COLOUR

It’s not much fun in the garden this month … the soil is wet, soggy and difficult to work with. However, there are still a few things that should be done in the garden.

Follow this month's gardening tips and plant Starke Ayres Star Veg for optimum quality. Delicious veg to be planted this season include peas, Asian greens, broad beans, lettuce, onions, radish and turnips (all from seed). Seedlings include beetroots, cauliflower, celery, leeks, onions and turnips.

The garden need not be a drab place this winter. Plant colourful camellias and azaleas as well as splashes of aloes to create those warming hues.

Enjoy the fresh air that this time of year brings, remembering to stay warm in between the gardening stints. Drink plenty of herbal teas straight from your garden to keep the bugs at bay! 

HAVE A WARM & COSY WINTER SEASON!

STARKE AYRES has been a supplier of quality seed, seedlings, trees, shrubs, pot plants, bulbs and a variety of gardening accessories to the gardening public of Cape Town for well over a century.

Aware of the fact that climatic and soil conditions in the Western Cape vary greatly from those in the summer rainfall areas of the north, we have gone to great lengths to identify plants that are particularly well adapted to the Mediterranean climate of the Western Cape.

In the garden centre plants are displayed in such a manner as to make the shopping experience an easy and a pleasant one. Customers need to know how adaptable plants are, their growing conditions and how they can be used for maximum impact in the garden.