VEGETABLE GARDEN

Tray Sow - Succession sowing out Broad Beans, Peas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Spring Onions, Leeks, Silverbeet, Spinach, Tomatoes, Peppers,and Zucchini, Cucumber, Melon, Squash, Pumpkin, Courgettes, Lettuce and Capsicums

Plant - Sow under cover; frost cloth/tunnels or greenhouse/hothouse - Lettuce

Plant in Rows - Carrots, Beetroot

As the weather warming tray sow, chillies, may take longer if you plant at the start of the month, wait until the end of the month

As the end of the frost done, cut the tops of your Sage, Thyme and Mint, till get new growth for the summer harvest.

Great time to plant your own Herb Garden from seeds (some ideas parsley, rosemary, sage, and thyme)

Still on top of mounding potatoes, it will create more potatoes come Christmas

Labour weekend (Mon, 28 Oct 2024) best time to planting out Tomatoes

Keep on top of aphids and white cabbage butterfly, caterpillar, slugs and snails, with quash control or/and beer traps

FLOWER IN THE GARDEN

Want more crops this year add more flowers in the vegetable garden, also encourage bees to pollinate

Bedding and perennial plants will be store or plant your own by seeds now for later like Viola, Polyanthus, Cineraria, Alyssum, Poppy, Cornflower, Gypsophila, Hollyhock and Carnations now

Put fertiliser in your flowers (seaweed good), and bulb food

FRUIT GARDEN

Potting up fruit trees in pots, citrus - lemons, oranges, limes and mandarins

Pea-straw your Strawberry, plus bird netting, now for berry later

Mulch around the base of fruit trees