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March

Vegie Garden and Kitchen Garden:

- after beans are harvested, slash stalks and rotary-hoe bed at shallow depth
- sow Asian brassica, beetroot, large savoy cabbages, large red cabbages, sugarloaf cabbage (from mid month), carrots,  cauliflower, spring onions, radish, corn salad, lettuce & Asian greens, mustard, spinach; plant out silverbeet from greenhouse;
feed beds lightly with complete organic fertilizer, horse manure or composted hay from chook-pens before sowing and planting 
- harvest: Asian brassica, bush beans, climbing beans, shelling beans, green sprouting broccoli, small savoy cabbages, small red cabbages, capsicum, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, eggplant, kale, kohlrabi, brown onions, salad onions, spring onions, peas, potatoes, pumpkin, radish, lettuce & Asian greens, mustard, silverbeet, spinach, squash, swede, sweetcorn, tomatoes, zucchini


Orchards:

- pick
     
apples: Alexander, Breakwell's seedling, Gravenstein, Laxton's Fortune, Ribston Pippin, St Edmund's Pippin, St Lawrence, Summer Strawberry, Twenty Ouncer, Tydeman's Early
     plums: Angelina, Coe's Golden Drop, Green Gage, Pershore, President, Prune Splendour, Ziegler

- start picking
      apples:
Berner Rose, Blenheim Orange, Bonza, Bramley's seedling, Campbelltown Russet, Court of Wick, Cox's Orange Pippin, Egremont Russet, Esopus Spitzenberg, Fenouillet Gris,  Geeveston Fanny, Grand Duke Constantin, Improved Foxwhelp, Kidd's Orange Red, McIntosh, Pine Golden  Pippin, Red Cleopatra, Somerset Redstreak, Tuft's Baldwin
      Nashi pear: 20th Century
      pear: Beurre Bosc
- control cherry and pear slug with Success, if necessary
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plant daffodils, jonquils and other spring bulbs


Greenhouse:
- sow silverbeet
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