AFTER months of cold soil, the most common plant problems appear as nutritional deficiencies, usually seen in the foliage of trees, shrubs, vegetables and even lawn grass. During winter, many lawns take on an unhealthy, yellow-green appearance. For some reason this causes considerable anguish to those blokes who, when not sitting in front of the box watching their favourite sport, dedicate a significant part of their weekends to removing every tiny weed that dares invade their own sacred turf. The best way of restoring colour to a late-winter lawn is by sprinkling finely pulverised chook manure, or pellets, over the surface — a good handful for every square metre. If rain is forecast, do this before it arrives or even...
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