Grow Your Own Food

our Australian personalized children's books
www.kavenga.com

 

Gardening Calendar: our monthly to-do list
January February March April May June July August September October November December
December

Vegie Gardens:

- control slugs and snails by squashing them at night
- use Dipel on brassica against cabbage white fly, if necessary
- sow Asian brassica, bush beans (to mid month), climbing beans (to mid month), shelling beans, beetroot, green sprouting broccoli, Brussels sprouts, small savoy cabbages, small red cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, celery, kale, leek, lettuce & Asian greens, mustard, spring onions, radishes, spinach (perennial kind) and swede; feed beds lightly with complete organic fertilizer, horse manure or composted hay from chook-pens before sowing and planting 
- harvest: broad beans, green sprouting broccoli, purple sprouting broccoli, small savoy cabbages, small red cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, celery, garlic, kohlrabi, salad onions, spring onions, potato onions, peas, pink eyes, radish, lettuces & Asian greens, mustard, silverbeet, spinach, squash, swede, zucchini


Orchards:

- start picking 
    
berries
     currants
    
cherries 
- continue spraying apple trees against fungus with limil
in two-weekly intervals (especially important in damp weather)
- thin out apple and pears
- start summer-pruning fruit trees
- check for pear and cherry slugs, spray with Success, if necessary
- check for aphids, spray with natural pyrethrum if necessary
- deep-water once a week


Greenhouse:
- sow Brussels sprouts and leek, then separate seedlings & keep well spaced in large pots
Home Donations

Poultry & eggs for sale

Poultry info Garden 
Diary
Alphabet of Gardening Our
Recipes
Gardening 
Calender
Orchards Kitchen Garden Vegie Garden About us Contact
Resources
Disclaimer

Copyright © 2001-2012 Kavenga Publishing