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Gardening Calendar: our monthly to-do list
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April
Rotations change in April

Vegie Garden

Rotation 1 – after previous crop is harvested, apply lime, manure and complete organic fertilizer; sow broad beans
Rotation 2 – after previous crop is harvested, sow green manure
Rotation 3 – after previous crop is harvested, sow green manure
Rotation 4 – after previous crop is harvested, sow green manure
Prepare extra bed for onions


Kitchen Garden:

Rotation 1 – after previous crop is harvested, apply lime, manure and complete organic fertilizer, sow broad beans
Rotation 2 – after previous crop is harvested, apply lime, sow salad onions, plant garlic cloves
Rotation 3 – after previous crop is harvested, sow green manure
Rotation 4 – after previous crop is harvested, apply lime, manure and complete organic fertilizer, sow broad beans
Rotation 5 – after previous crop is harvested, apply lime, sow spring onions
Rotation 6 – after previous crop is harvested, sow green manure


Vegie Garden and Kitchen Garden:

Non-rotation beds – sow Sugarloaf cabbage (to mid month), plant leek and Brussels sprouts from greenhouse
Anywhere – sow corn salad, spinach, mustard, radish
Harvest: green sprouting broccoli, small savoy cabbages, small red cabbages, Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, leek, onions, carrots, swede, beans, potatoes, celery, lettuce, Asian greens, mustards, spinach, swede, cucumber, pumpkin, squash, tomatoes, capsicum, eggplant


Orchards:

- apply manure, compost or Nitrogen rich organic fertilizer to Blueberries
- pick
Bonza, Berner Rose, Bramley, Egremont Russet, Geeveston Fanny, McIntosh, Pine Golden Pippin, Red Delicious, Pear Conference
- start picking Andre Sauvage, Huon Crab, Upton Pyne
- plant daffodils, jonquils and other spring bulbs
- spray nectarine tree that had leafcurl with Bordeaux
- apply dolom
ite around fruit trees
- prune berries and cover with 40cm of old hay/ horse manure mixture
- cut out old branches out of blackcurrant bushes and cover with 40cm of old hay/ horse manure mixture
- clean strawberry beds
- plant new strawberries
- remove codlin moth grub bandage traps and burn
- mulch all beds


Greenhouse:
- sow sugarloaf cabbage, lettuces & Asian greens mixtures, then separate seedlings & keep in large pots
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