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April

Vegie Gardens:

- where space becomes available after harvesting, sow green manure or dig in horse manure and composted hay from chook-pens; in beds where onions, leek or garlic will be planted apply complete organic fertilizer instead
- sow broad beans, Sugarloaf cabbage (to mid month), corn salad, mustard, salad onions and spinach; plant leek, Brussels sprouts and silverbeet from greenhouse; plant garlic
- harvest: Asian brassica, climbing beans, green sprouting broccoli, small savoy cabbages, small red cabbages, capsicum, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, eggplant, kale, kohlrabi, leek, brown onions, salad onions, spring onions, potatoes, pumpkin, radish, lettuce & Asian greens, mustard, silverbeet, spinach, squash, swede, sweetcorn, tomatoes, zucchini


Orchards:

- pick
      apples:
Blenheim Orange, Bramley's seedling, Campbelltown Russet, Court of Wick, Cox's Orange Pippin, Egremont Russet, Esopus Spitzenberg, Fenouillet Gris,  Grand Duke Constantin, Improved Foxwhelp, Kidd's Orange Red, Red Cleopatra, Somerset Redstreak, Tuft's Baldwin
      pear: Beurre Bosc
      Nashi pear: 20th Century
      plums: Ziegler

- start picking
      apples:
Andre Sauvage, Braeburn, Catshead, Crabapples 'John Dowie' and 'Huonville Crab', Freyberg, Golden Harvey, Grime's Golden, Jonagold, Kingston Black, Michelin, Opalescent, Red Delicious, Reinette d'Angleterre, Stayman's Winesap, Upton Pyne, Yarlington Mill
- mulch under fruit trees and berries with horse manure and composted hay from chook-pens (berries with additional pine needles)
- plant daffodils, jonquils and other spring bulbs
- prune blueberries and autumn raspberries 
- cut out old branches out of blackcurrant bushes
- clean strawberry beds
- plant new strawberries
- remove codling moth traps and clean


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