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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 
- spray apple and pear trees against fungus with limil, if necessary
- thin out apple and pear trees
- start summer-pruning fruit trees
- check for pear and cherry slugs, spray with Success, if necessary
- deep-water once a week


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