URBAN FOOD GARDEN

   

MONTHLY PLANTING AND THINGS TO DO GUIDE

   

March (Early Autumn)

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

 

broccoli

 

broad beans

 

Brussels Sprouts

 
  cabbage   cauliflower  

Florence fennel

 
 

lettuces

  pak choi  

radishes

 
  spinach   Spring onions   Turnip  

  What to do in the vegetable patch

Harvest - beans, capsicums, cucumbers, eggplant, lettuces, onions, silverbeet, Spring onions,  tomatoes, parsnip, pumpkins, radishes, spinach, turnips and  zucchinis . 

Hand water vegetables as required

Water all newly planted seedlings with liquid fertiliser
 

   What to do in the garden


Harvest - apples, pears, nashi fruit, strawberries.

Rake gravel or soil paths

Trim back grass edges

Net fruit trees as they come into fruit


Pull out any summer crops that have been harvested.

Prepare empty beds for Winter crops.
Prepare empty beds for Winter crops by digging over and adding fertiliser.  If you are planting Brassicas (cabbages, cauliflowers, Brussels sprouts and broccoli) then add lime or dolomite to the soil to raise the Ph of the soil (make it more alkali).  This is because Brassicas prefer alkali soils.  Recommended dosages can be found on the side of most bags of lime or dolomite. 

I recommend that you add little or no animal manures as this will tend to lower the Ph.  Instead add blood and bone or chemical fertilisers such as super phosphate.  If you do add a lot of animal manure then add more lime or dolomite to the soil than the recommended dosage.

 Apply Derris Dust or Bacillus thuringiensis (Dipel) to Brassica plants.
Brassicas are the only vegetable plants I know that you absolutely have to spray if you want them to survive as the cabbage butterfly caterpillars will inevitable destroy them if you do not.  I suggest you use either
Derris Dust or Bacillus thuringiensis (commonly known under the brand name of Dipel).  Or a combination of both.
 

 

 

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