Supertunia Jazzberry Has Arrived!!!! - Sep 11, 2025

Dear gardening friends
Supertunia Jazzberry has arrived!!!! We've had gardeners ringing us daily about this amazing plant.
It's been like waiting for a baby.

We promoted this amazing plant last year after I had spectacular results growing one in a big pot, using Tim's Best Potting mix. The plant grew so prolifically it spilled out of the pot until the pot almost disappeared.

Supertunia Jazzberry is self cleaning, the spent flowers just vanish, and thousands more flowers take their place. It's a ball of colour, it's an absolute show stopper.

This is just one plant growing in this big terracotta pot. I've used Tim's Best Potting mix. The plant started flowering straight away and flowered like this all spring, summer and autumn.

I cut it back after Summer, sprayed it with an insecticide, topped up the pot with more Tim's Best Potting mix and it flowered again right through autumn.

Some people have had success keeping them alive over winter, it's too cold where I live and I replaced them.

It's time to plant them now, you can grow them in your gardens too, dig a bag of Tim's best potting mix into your soil and plant them one metre apart in a sunny garden. They will reward you with spectacular flowers.

We have two colours available Jazzberry and Royal Velvet. Plants cost $18.99. No holds sorry.
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Josh has just fertilised our lawn here with Tim's Rapid Results Lawn Food. People who have used this claim that it's turbo charged, and it turns their lawn bright green. Apparently you can see your lawn from the moon.

I'm not sure about that, but it is an amazing fertiliser that's been especially designed for Buffalo lawns. But yes it's safe for all types of grass.

It's coated, so the rain doesn't just wash it all down the drain and into the creeks. It releases over 3 months.

You can throw it out by hand or use a Scott's Spreader. It starts working straight away, you'll watch your grass go green.

It will make you happy, your neighbours will be asking you for lawn tips, "What did you use?".
It's up to you if you tell them, it's nice to have the greenest lawn in the street.

The small 4kg bag covers 260m2, yes it just might be turbo charged after all. Mow your lawn first, then feed the grass. You'll hear it eating this.
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It's time to plant Passionfruit vines but they are so hard to find in nurseries. The best Passionfruit vines are seedling grown, they don't sucker like grafted varieties.

There is some confusion about whether you need two vines to get fruit, you only need one. They are best planted on a mound of Tim's Best Potting mix.

Simply tip it out on top of the soil and dig it into your garden.

Now plant your Passionfruit in the mound. Mulch around the base with Sugarcane and water daily.

Passion fruit are tropical vines and they are happy to grow in full sun or half day sun.

I heard a lady telling someone today that her passionfruit vine dropped all of its flowers, because there are no bees.

Passionfruit are acalcitrant, they only fruit when they want too. They decide if the flowers are going to set fruit. Sometimes they fruit in summer, sometimes they fruit in the middle of winter.

When they do fruit, you'll get 100s of fruit. You simply won't be able to eat them all. You'll be making Pavolas every day.

We have beautiful vines here now for $18.99. It's the Big Black Passionfruit. Make sure you get a bag of Tim's Best Potting mix. It's got all the fertiliser to make your vine grow like crazy.

Sam I am wasn't so happy today. He was telling me how his Citrus tree dropped dead recently and he was so upset because he'd had it for 6 years.

After more questioning I discovered Sam's Citrus tree was growing in a pot. I bet you fertilised it with Citrus food? "Yes of course I use Citrus fertiliser on all my potted Citrus" was Sam's reply.

This is a big no, no and I bet gardeners are killing potted Citrus trees all around Australia right now.
I've just checked the instructions on two Citrus fertilisers that are sold all around Australia and there's no warning on the bag, that this fertiliser is not suitable for potted plants.

Here's why they are so dangerous!!!

Potted plants have much less soil volume, so fertiliser salts can build up quickly and damage roots.

Citrus fertiliser is granular and fairly concentrated, so over-application can stress or kill potted citrus.
Always water deeply after applying to help nutrients wash through and avoid salt accumulation at the root zone.

How to Use in Pots (if you want to)

  • Use much smaller amounts than the packet suggests for in-ground trees.
  • For example, instead of handfuls, start with a teaspoon or two sprinkled evenly over the pot surface.
  • Apply less often—perhaps once every 6–8 weeks in the growing season.
  • Always flush the pot thoroughly with water afterwards.
  • Watch the leaves — if you see leaf burn, yellowing edges, or stressed growth, reduce or stop using.

The safest fertiliser for Sam's Citrus is Tim's Cow manure. It will feed your Citrus without burning the roots. It also makes the potting mix hold more water. Citrus trees love water and the reason they die so often, is lack of water.

I hope this advice helps you become better gardeners. You have to be careful with Rose fertiliser on potted plants too.

Happy gardening
Tim