URBAN FOOD GARDEN

   

MONTHLY PLANTING AND THINGS TO DO GUIDE

   

January (Mid Summer)

 
 What to plant in the vegetable patch
          Bulb/Crown   Seed  Seedling  Under glass  Heated under glass

 

broccoli

 

Brussels Sprouts

 

cabbage

 
  cauliflower   celery  

Florence fennel

 
 

lettuces

  pak choi  

radishes

 
  silver beet   spinach   Spring onions  

  What to do in the vegetable patch

Harvest - beans, lettuces, onions, silverbeet, spinach, Spring onions,  tomatoes, parsnip, radishes, turnips and  zucchinis .  Watch out  for the first of the season's capsicums and cucumbers.

Hand water vegetables as required

Water all newly planted seedlings with liquid fertiliser
 

   What to do in the garden


Harvest - blackberries, apples (early), raspberries, strawberries.

Rake gravel or soil paths

Trim back grass edges

Net fruit trees as they come into fruit

Summer prune apple and pear trees



 

 

 

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