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May

Vegie Gardens:

- asparagus bed: cut all plants to the ground, mulch with seaweed (if available) or manure
- check brassica for cabbage white butterflies, spray with Dipel if necessary.

-
sow broad beans, salad onions and spring onions
- harvest:
Asian brassica, green sprouting broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, savoy cabbages, red cabbages, capsicum, carrots, cauliflower, celery, eggplant, kale, kohlrabi, leek, salad onions, potatoes, radish, corn salad, lettuce & Asian greens, mustard, silverbeet, spinach, swede, tomato


Orchards:

- continue mulching under fruit trees and berries (berries with a mixture of manure and pine needles)
-
pick
       apples:
Catshead, Crabapple 'John Dowie', Golden Harvey, Grime's Golden, Kingston Black, Michelin, Opalescent, Reinette d'Angleterre, Stayman's Winesap, Yarlington Mill
- start picking
      apples:
Belle de Boskop, Calville Blanc D’Hiver, Cornish Aromatic, Court Plendu Plat, Crab Apple 'Gorgeous', Dabinette, Ida Red, Prinzenapfel, Reinette d’Oree, Sturmer, Wellington
- spray stone fruit with copper hydroxide to prevent brown rot and leaf curl
- plant new strawberries
- transplant raspberry plants 3rd week of May


Greenhouse:
- transplant seedlings into pots
- sow spinach, then later separate seedlings & keep in large pots
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