tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75002509142847154912024-03-14T20:51:07.283+11:00Vegetable Vagabond
sowing seeds and putting down rootsKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140249815996700049noreply@blogger.comBlogger570125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500250914284715491.post-87744280646237788852023-04-27T06:46:00.001+10:002023-04-27T06:46:28.723+10:00Autumn bliss<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140249815996700049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500250914284715491.post-56026033017905364102022-11-21T14:43:00.001+11:002022-11-21T14:43:07.741+11:00Open Gardens..... in changing times<div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have visited a few open gardens today. They are all gorgeous and the owners have done an amazing job getting them ready, with all the rain etc that we have had. Some had magnificent, old trees, some massess of prettiness, one had fabulous, very old rock walls, most had a pond. </span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The thing about them all was that they could have been anywhere in the world that had an appropriate climate. None of them were what I would call Australian. I know 2 gardens that say Australia, <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>without being just natives, and that is what I particularly like. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpoK2CeZkKc4Tsy_WLIcE4IEppvBcA5O9nmhkWySjJczR2HUnWXAcrCv51qzz1I6KAAnUGETCd5mrz9TIBFFID-cHzpdVEyeXf8j3PLERwzGQEUpL08pMfugt5hiuw0ebPrgMAP51vstxX6-sB7hkInex-twhUTR5K4XWCWPistgJBKLHfPMARjzyr" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img data-original-height="935" data-original-width="526" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpoK2CeZkKc4Tsy_WLIcE4IEppvBcA5O9nmhkWySjJczR2HUnWXAcrCv51qzz1I6KAAnUGETCd5mrz9TIBFFID-cHzpdVEyeXf8j3PLERwzGQEUpL08pMfugt5hiuw0ebPrgMAP51vstxX6-sB7hkInex-twhUTR5K4XWCWPistgJBKLHfPMARjzyr=w236-h420" width="236" /></a></div>None of them had much in the way of food gardens either or an ecosystem that encourages any life except human. One had a beautiful, gently sloping, north facing, manicured lawn..... totally perfect for vegetables, but, alas, just lawn. Clearly not a fan of Peter Cundall! </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For some reason, most middle class, white people think about gardens in this English kind of way; way more English than the English in England. I had hoped that the threat of food insecurity, shortages of potatoes etc, massive crop losses from floods, endless climate change disasters, programmes about insect collapse etc etc might have started to impact people's perceptions of what a garden is and what it can do for life into the future. Sadly, here abouts, they have barely raised an eyebrow. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Well, here are some of my garlic which are looking magnificent. They are Dunganski and Music. I have never seen garlic so tall.... this makes the stems look thin in the photo but they are not thin at all. Come late January/ early February, they will hopefully have good garlic bulbs and be ready for picking. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I know where I would rather be. <span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="đ" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t4c/1/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px;" width="16" /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><br /><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><br /></span></div></div>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140249815996700049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500250914284715491.post-84597471022674526932022-11-21T14:37:00.004+11:002022-11-21T14:37:44.668+11:00Tomatoes and snow!<p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIflt7idh-Dnb47po0j3MpTtNw3UfMz6-ToRLh1L0pb3UfUI--ZxQdqrNjfLRULjE2ZRwvDDfOd6LuDwh3uPBJ1DJdE_-fSI_E89-dboPkr2WB3HnUlieRpc7nUxbvaqjEVstlYehTiwOX1Urs0-ZS2DUctJAxFG1AfMlTJJWMy1N9q47U_LbzO4Og" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIflt7idh-Dnb47po0j3MpTtNw3UfMz6-ToRLh1L0pb3UfUI--ZxQdqrNjfLRULjE2ZRwvDDfOd6LuDwh3uPBJ1DJdE_-fSI_E89-dboPkr2WB3HnUlieRpc7nUxbvaqjEVstlYehTiwOX1Urs0-ZS2DUctJAxFG1AfMlTJJWMy1N9q47U_LbzO4Og=w298-h400" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">This is a really, really tough spring for tomatoes. I have moved mine inside for a few days, until the cold and wet and windy weather passes again.</span></div><br /><br /><p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140249815996700049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500250914284715491.post-54931627428934714522022-11-21T12:00:00.000+11:002022-11-21T12:00:06.573+11:00November 2022 Kitchen Garden Guide<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Saturation! This last month or so will be testing your
garden layout, water management and soil health. Donât blame the weather; how
your garden reacts is all about plant health, soil health, drainage and the
state of the ecosystem you have had a big part in creatingâŚ.. or not creating!
Aphid and white fly infestations, rust, rot and root diseases as well as
pollination issues can be sidestepped significantly by having a garden of
biodiverse plants, including lots of Tasmanian natives, predator attracting plants,
bird attracting plants and nesting sites as well as a soil packed with
microbes, who have spent millions of years evolving strategies to keep the soil
where they live healthy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>What to do now<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">1.If you have garlic rust, like I do in one patch because I
foolishly planted in a low spot, push your fork well down in between the plants
and open the soil up a bit, to help it dry off. I have also removed all leaves
touching the ground. I am going to spray over the leaves a solution of 1 part
full cream milk: 10 parts water. This is a very good fungal suppressant, as
used by thousands of vineyards worldwide, in preference to chemicals because of
its efficacy. Observe and learn from what you see.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Trees do not like to be waterlogged. Fork around the
dripline, not digging, but rather pushing the fork in deep then rocking it
forward and back, to let some air in. This will help relieve the compaction
created by so much rain. The same applies to lawns, garden beds and even paths.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. If your chook yard is boggy, donât try to fix it by using
something fine like hay because it may become mouldy and make your chooks sick.
Instead, use something inert and coarse, like coarse straw, not too thick. Dig
a few holes so the water can drain into them and fill them with gravel. If the
roost floor is wet from the chooks coming and going with wet feet etc, dust
with a little lime or carb soda, little and often, so as not to irritate their
feet.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Grass<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">After 12 years of gardening here on my acre I can finally
say that grass is no longer the problem that it was. Sure, nothing is perfect
but I am pretty happy. What did I do? Firstly, I did not expect miracles and I
have used no chemicals. Mostly I have mulched and mulched and fed and mulched
and pulled and mulched and then some!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For example, I try not to let grass grow within the drip
line of trees. As the trees grow, so the dripline expands and more grass is
mulched over. Amongst the mulch I plant all manner of flowers, bulbs and herbs
and native groundcovers too. This is fabulous for fire zones as it keeps dry
mulch to a minimum, using plants as living mulch. At the same time it benefits
soil microbes, little native birds and beneficial insects as well as looking
pretty. Yes, it takes years but eventually you have flowers and herbs and trees
and lovely garden beds with very little grass incursion. Start small, where you
are, use what you have, do what you canâŚ.. and keep doing it!<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Codling moth<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">The adult female codling moth lays approximately 60 whitish
grey eggs that are about the size of a pinhead, on the surface of the leaves of
apples, pears and quinces when the average temperature is over 15 degrees in
spring and early summer. To reduce their numbers you must act now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Codling moth eggs hatch after 10 days and the small
caterpillars emerge to feed on the leaf surface and make their way to the
fruit. They burrow into the fruit and head for the core. They will spend about
three to five weeks inside the fruit feeding and putting on body mass until
they are ready to emerge. This is the stage that we see, when fruit displays
the tell-tale hole which leads to brown insides or early rotting when stored.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My motherâs remedy works well but annually led to her
becoming embarrassed at her frequent visits to the local bottle shop every
spring! She had a stash of tins, such as from tinned tomatoes, through which
she drilled holes and tied string so that the tins can hang in a tree. Into
each tin she put a dash of port and a double dash of water. She hung 2 or 3
tins in every apple, pear and quince tree. The male coddling moths are
attracted to the port and drown in it, reducing the number of fertile eggs laid
by the females. My mother topped up the liquids regularly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is more, information and several non-alcoholic
controls outlined on the fantastic Global Net Academy website. Search for
Tasmania.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>November is beans time.<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Add a handful of potash and a good spadeful of compost per
square metre and fork them in. Sow beans into damp soil and water only once
until the first leaves appear. This year I will wait until things have dried
out somewhat or they may rot. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Climbing beans</u>: Pole beans WILL blow over unless the
structure is secure. I tie one end of my frame to a sturdy fence post. I
especially love flat beans and have found some seeds, at last. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Bush beans</u>: Bush beans are great for Tasmania as they
produce faster than pole beans and arenât as bothered by spring winds. There
are hundreds of varieties to choose from and saving seed for next year is
simply a matter of letting some of the pods mature fully and dry off before
picking.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Cygnet
Spring Garden Market</b>: Sunday Nov. 13<sup>th</sup>, 11 â 3 @ The Cannery.
39+ garden stalls, 5 presentations, Cannery farm plates & bar, food vans
and stalls, coffee, tool sharpening class (BYO tools to sharpen), Seed
Library pack & chat, Childrenâs activities. Consider parking at Burtons
Reserve, a 2 minute walk away. Details on FB and Instagram.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><u>Sow
indoors to plant out later:</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;">Cucumbers,
zucchinis (Romanesco), tromboncino, corn, pumpkins. Almost anything but it is
too late for tomatoes!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><u>Sow in
the garden</u>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;">Beans (after
frosts), salad leaves (not just lettuce!), brassicas (cover with moth
netting), most herbs, salad and spring onions, beetroot, fennel, carrots,
celery, parsnip, sunflowers and lots of other flowers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Plant out frost tender seedlings, including tomatoes,
late Nov.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Check your hose fittings, watering cans and irrigation
equipment.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Share excess seedlings with friends. Check out Crop Swap
Cygnet and Surrounds FB page for dates and doings.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Most of all, enjoy the garden, the warm sunshine and
life<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">đ</span><o:p></o:p></li>
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</tbody></table>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140249815996700049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500250914284715491.post-55404307581851338982022-11-21T11:44:00.002+11:002022-11-21T11:44:09.653+11:00August 2022 Kitchen Garden Guide<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">August heralds the coming of the light, where the sun is a
little higher in the sky and daylight hours are lengthening. Lengthening days
and strengthening sun bring energy to life in the southern hemisphere. Along
with climate trends and weather variations, these are what influence the
arrival of spring. Here in Cygnet, cold winds often arrive, just when we start
to enjoy a bit more sun so provide shelter for the edible garden, using hay
bales, for example.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Insects, fungus, birds and other annoyances<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">We walk in the forests and marvel at the beautiful fungi but
we donât like curly leaf appearing on our fruit trees, as a result of other
fungi. The difference is that, in the forests, life is in balance. If anyone
starts getting too big for their boots, other creatures will bring things back
into line. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We can toss cold ash from our fires about the place in
autumn under fruit trees and use a woody rather than straw mulch. We can
attract predators, like lacewings, by planting hiding places and breeding
places for them, near or under our fruit trees. We can let the chooks range in
about the fruit trees, to pick off emerging coddling moth larvae. We can net
individual trees to keep the birds and maybe the possums off during fruiting
but we do need the little wrens, silver eyes and others to hop about on the
bare branches all winter, picking off insect larvae, aphids etc and even those
pesky blackbirds, rummaging about in the mulch, are doing more good than harm,
during winter and spring. I do all these things and rarely have insect or
disease problems but there are 3 relatively benign sprays that I use. Nothing
is totally harmless. Do not be fooled by chemical companies that claim
otherwise!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Curly leaf</u> is best avoided by applying a copper spray
several times before bud burst, after which it is too late. I use Burgundy Mix,
as described many years ago by Peter Cundall:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">1. Dissolve 50 gram of washing soda (from supermarket) in 2.5 litres of
warm water.</span><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">2. Dissolve
50 grams copper sulphate in a separate 2.5 litres of water.</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">3. Slowly
pour the dissolved washing soda into the dissolved copper sulphate.</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">4. This is
Burgundy mixture. It is at its most effective strength when freshly mixed so
must be used immediately or within a couple of days.</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">5. Spray
thoroughly over and under the bare branches of peach, nectarine and
other stone fruit trees to help control leaf curl and brown rot disease. It is
also useful when sprayed over raspberry canes in late July/early August for
control of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">raspberry<b> </b></span>rust
and on apple trees that had scab last year.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The mixture
colours the sprayed plants blue. The spray can withstand light rain but should
be re-applied after persistent rain and done at least twice before any buds
open. Do not spray once the leaves and flowers open. Read about copper
accumulation in the soil and about lime sulphur alternative, on the Deep Green
Permaculture website.</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h1><span style="background: white;">White oil<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Into an empty jar pour a cup of ordinary cooking oil and Âź
cup of dishwashing liquid. Give it a good shake. It will turn white. Thatâs
your white oil concentrate. It will last for a year or more. Label the
container with the correct dilution rate â <i>âone tablespoon per litre of
waterâ</i>. I use this for scale on my undercover, potted citrus and on indoor
plants that get scale. It is very effective and simply blocks the pores of
whatever it lands on. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Dipel<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dipel is a biological insecticide containing the naturally
occurring microorganism Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki, that only
effects caterpillars. It is wonderful sprayed on your brassicas to reduce
cabbage moth caterpillars breeding up in spring and summer. It does not harm
any other insects or animals.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Sowing Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">My favourite tomatoes for growing in chilly Cygnet are Black
from Tula (big, black, solid, luscious, delicious and surprisingly reliable),
Rouge de Marmande (medium, reliable, long season), Jaune FlammĂŠ (orange, medium
to smallish, delicious, very prolific, long season). Many others are suitable
too. Check out Daveâs Seeds website and facebook page.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have written about sowing tomatoes many times. The gist of
it is:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->They really do need bottom heat for good
germination. Use a brewerâs mat or terrarium mat or silicone terrarium tube or
lash out on a heated seed raising kit.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Covering the seed tray with a sheet of glass
before germination keeps moisture in and rodents out. This applies to all seed
sowing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Once germinated, they need LOTS of sun plus the
heat mat. Water sparingly. Use warm water. Water with a weak liquid feed every
couple of weeks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Pay attention to how they look. Spindly = need
more sun. Yellow = too much water. Not growing = need more warmth or food.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Herbs<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">âHerbs maketh the mealâ Kate, 2022<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Parsley and walnut pesto, sage leaf chips, salsa verde,
tarragon and orange salad, rosemary sourdough, pistou soup, dill cucumbers, bay
leaves in vodka etc etc all need to be in your mind when you think about your
edible garden. Herbs are not just extras, they are integral to making food
memorable. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In these days of rising prices, grow what is expensive to
buy. Herbs grow so easily and are so much more tasty picked directly from
outside your kitchen door, rather than from a shop. Donât just plant one of
each, plant 6! Put aside a whole garden edge for garlic chives, fill spaces
between young brassicas with parsley. Create an area solely for evergreen herbs
like rosemary, sage, marjoram, fennel, sorrel and be adventurous. Lovage is
fantastic!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><a name="_Hlk78781543">Plant
and sow in August<o:p></o:p></a></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Plant
rhubarb, strawberry runners, raspberry canes, asparagus and get all deciduous
trees and shrubs in before they leaf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Start
sowing summer vegetables with bottom heat:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Capsicums<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Chillis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->EggplantsâŚ. Good luck!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;">And while you are waiting for them to
mature, why not grow some sprouts in the kitchen for a nutritious and
delicious treat for your taste buds and bodyâŚ. lentils, chickpeas, fenugreek,
buckwheat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;">Sow now in trays to plant out later:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Onions including red, salad, spring and most
others<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Broad beans (it is not too late)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Coriander<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Brassicas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Asian greens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Lettuces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Peas to eat and as pea shoot microgreens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</tbody></table>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140249815996700049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500250914284715491.post-44006467473910643052022-11-21T11:41:00.000+11:002022-11-21T11:41:20.930+11:00August 2020 Kitchen Garden Guide<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">July was terribly dry, with mild nights. Today it is
forecast to snow almost to sea level, with plenty of rain elsewhere. This
winter at the bottom of the world will test the plants and seeds in our gardens
as they try to work out if it is time to grow or best to stay dormant a while
longer. One thing we can be sure of is that it is time to sow tomatoes, as far
off as a summer harvest seems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have written about sowing tomatoes many times. The gist of
it is:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->They really do need bottom heat for good
germination. Use a brewerâs mat or terrarium mat or silicone terrarium tube or
lash out on a heated seed raising kit.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Covering the seed tray with a sheet of glass
before germination keeps moisture in and rodents out. This applies to all seed
sowing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Once germinated, they need LOTS of sun plus the
heat mat. Water sparingly. Use warm water. Water with a weak liquid feed every
couple of weeks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Pay attention to how they look. Spindly = need
more sun. Yellow = too much water. Not growing = need more warmth or food.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When you pot up, add some blood and bone and
sulphate of potash to the mix. Only pot up to tiny pots, then slightly bigger
and so on, and ONLY when they look too big for the pot they are in.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In Cygnet, I plant mine out in late Nov or early
Dec. They should then be strong, dark green and flowering. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Make sure you prepare the soil now, in your
garden, for planting out. Get all your supplies now, including this next
suggestionâŚ.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->I make 750mm rounds of sturdy, 100mm-square,
wire mesh, 900 â 1200 high. It comes in 30m lengths. Cut lengths of 2400mm and
you will get 12 rounds. Whites is the only brand I have found here. Chicken
wire is too flimsy for this job.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->I now have 2 x 30m rolls. Itâs a big outlay, but
I put them around clusters of raspberries and any plants needing support. They
will last forever and never get tangled or squashed etc. Helpful to reduce
swearing in the garden!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->I plant my tomatoes 750mm apart and put a mesh
circle over each one, joined one to the next, for strength. I bang in one stake
at the edge of each, for more strength in our windy summers. In the centre,
with each tomato plant, I put a twirly, metal stake (from Shiploads). I keep
all the tomato growth within the circle. I have used this method forever and it
is foolproof. You will find dozens of uses for these circles, after the
tomatoes finish, I assure you. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1>Annual, biennial, perennial âŚ. in the kitchen garden<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Annual</u> means grows to maturity and sets seed in one
year = lettuce, basil, tomatoes, pumpkins. These plants readily self-sow if you
allow the full life cycle to complete. Easy to save the seeds (but some will
cross).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Biennial</u> means it takes 2 years for the whole life
cycle to complete = kale, sprouting broccoli, beetroot, celery. These will also
re-sow, given time. Easy to save the seeds (but some will cross).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Perennial</u> has 2 meanings:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Always visible (but may be deciduous), doesnât
die down, lives for many years = fruit trees, currants, wasabi, herbs like
rosemary, bay etc. These are generally best propagated by cuttings or grafts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Grows, dies back to the ground then comes again
next season from the same roots = artichokes, asparagus, rhubarb, tarragon.
This should be labelled herbaceous perennial. These are best propagated by
division.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Curly Leaf<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is time to see that the early fungus that causes leaf
curl on peaches, nectarines and related fruit trees does not get a hold, by spraying
every nook and cranny of every branch, stem and bud with a copper spray. Peter
Cundall recommends Burgundy mix, which you can make yourself, because it does
not clog up the spray nozzle, like Bordeaux can. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Burgundy Mixture:</span></u></b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">1. Dissolve
50 gram of washing soda (from supermarket) in 2.5 litres of warm water.</span> <br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">2. Dissolve
50 grams copper sulphate in a separate 2.5 litres of water.</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">3. Slowly
pour the dissolved washing soda into the dissolved copper sulphate.</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">4. This is
Burgundy mixture. It is at its most effective strength when freshly mixed so
must be used immediately or within a couple of days.</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">5. Spray
thoroughly over the bare branches of <b>peach</b>, <b>nectarine</b> and
other stone fruit trees to help control leaf curl and brown rot disease. It is
also useful when sprayed over raspberry canes in late July/early August for
control of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">raspberry<b> </b></span>rust
and on apple trees that had scab last year.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The mixture
colours the sprayed plants blue. The spray can withstand light rain but should
be re-applied after persistent rain and done at least twice before any buds
open. Do not spray once the leaves and flowers open.</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><a name="_Hlk78781543">Plant
and sow in August<o:p></o:p></a></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Plant
rhubarb, strawberry runners, raspberry canes, asparagus and get all deciduous
trees and shrubs in before they leaf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Start
sowing summer vegetables with bottom heat:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Capsicums<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Chillis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->EggplantsâŚ. Good luck!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;">And while you are waiting for them to mature,
why not grow some sprouts in the kitchen for a nutritious and delicious treat
for your taste buds and bodyâŚ. lentils, chickpeas, fenugreek, buckwheat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;">Sow now in trays to plant out later:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Onions including red, salad, spring and most
others<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Broad beans (it is not too late)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Coriander<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Brassicas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Asian greens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Lettuces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Peas to eat as pea shoot microgreens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk78781543;"></span>
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</tbody></table>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140249815996700049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500250914284715491.post-36720850293304077432022-11-21T11:36:00.004+11:002022-11-21T11:36:43.399+11:00August 2016 Kitchen Garden Guide<p> </p><p></p><h1>Making water work<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">The wettest 3 months on record means everything is saturated
and most soil will be unworkable for a while yet. Working the soil when it is
in this state can damage the structure and upset the soil life, never mind
about damaging your back! I recommend we all take a while to observe what is
happening in our gardens by plunging a spade or fork to its full depth,
wobbling it back and forth and, on your hands and knees, looking at and feeling
the soil. Once it is no longer solid, like slicing a cheesecake, but rather
more like breaking open a muffin, then you can go ahead and work the soil.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you have land but no garden yet, this winter will have
shown you how your land has handled constant rain. Were there boggy areas that
were constantly wet? Were there patches that remarkably stayed bone dry (like
under large trees)? Perhaps you have a slope that turned into a sheet of
running water or a creek that became eroded or overflowed? Take notes, draw a
rough map and mark out distinct zones with sticks because you will forget!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One way to modify the land is to make your garden
interesting with cleverly designed mounds and shaped low areas that lead excess
water to a pond or already existing creek. My garden has such a design,
directing water around the garden in shallow, grassy depressions which end up
either in my pond or in the creek. There are paths crossing the dips, with
small âbridgesâ which keep a walkerâs feet dry, which are anything from a few,
short planks embedded into both sides to a metal grate or some nice rocks.
These features make land into garden and plants can be selected for their
habitat requirements. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is Tasmania so make use of our climate and our diverse
native Tasmanian plants, many of which are edible and which will result in
frogs, insects and our gorgeous, tiny, native birds and small mammals
inhabiting parts of your garden. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Choosing and sowing tomatoes etc<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">If, like me, picking tomatoes from the garden is a favourite
sport of yours then now is the time to get your seeds started. Last summer a
lot of people grew the best tomatoes ever but we have no idea what this season
will be like. So we need to hedge our bets and choose a range of tomatoes; some
that will produce in a cool season, some for a hot season, some that will
thrive even in the rain and some that can tolerate wind etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I always grow some Rouge de Marmande because, no matter
what, they will provide you with a prolific crop of medium sized, red tomatoes
on sturdy, bush plants. I always grow some Black Cherry as they are the most
flavoursome of the cherries, in my opinion, and are reliable. After that, I go
for a dense, luscious, tasty tomato like Black from Tula which may not perform
as well in a cool summer but last summer was the highlight of my garden. Next I
would choose San Marzano, as a cooking tomato as they go on and on for months.
I donât much like yellow or pear shaped tomatoes as I have never tasted a good
one in Tasmania. Kotlas is by far the earliest and is worth growing for that
reason.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Basically,
fruiting plants like tomatoes, capsicums and eggplants need the longest growing
season as they have to first get to a good size, then flower, then the fruits
must grow and finally they need time to develop flavour and to ripen. Sow these
now, preferably with even, bottom heat. I use a 6m long, 50 watt, thin,
flexible, silicon cable taped to the underside of a 3 shelf, metal rack from
the tip-shop. The metal shelves ensure good heat transfer to my seed trays and
50W just keeps the soil at a nice temperature, without costing a lot to run. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Each
seed tray fits inside a foam box from which I have cut out the bottom, so the
tray sits directly on the metal shelf. Over the foam frame sits a sheet of
glass. This is for 2 reasons. Firstly, successful seed germination depends on
high humidity but constant watering can be too much, causing low germination.
Once the seeds are gently watered at sowing, covering with a glass sheet keeps
in the moisture without any further watering needed before germination.
Secondly, mice love seeds and this is a fool proof way of keeping them out. I
once lost a whole tray of assorted pumpkin seeds to mice and quickly learned my
lesson.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Seeds
you would be best not to sow yet include basil. I grow wonderful basil, sowing
as late as November. This way they do not run to seed, but grow fast and strong
in the longer days. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No matter how warm
your shelf or hot house, day length cannot be easily altered and some plants
just insist on longer days to grow well.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><br /><p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140249815996700049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500250914284715491.post-42543248472704848762022-11-21T11:27:00.005+11:002022-11-21T11:27:30.285+11:00August 2015 Kitchen Garden Guide<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvX7OltQnisjAqFR1GbfivlTGcuiWTCiZp5wKsHDs5KSzfrUo5aP-F1vyoDu65KQn2X-DmDxtGyaxcVrMLMlvhjLPgILfDJRvYDbqEqS-2Rg_Tkz8Jhp6oCJmmdcZdD-Ujm2oMN7qKue9oF-uf7fBJP1BTOm8fD5fztON0vPPmjmc0P435YJ78DKu8/s3872/DSC_0018.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3872" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvX7OltQnisjAqFR1GbfivlTGcuiWTCiZp5wKsHDs5KSzfrUo5aP-F1vyoDu65KQn2X-DmDxtGyaxcVrMLMlvhjLPgILfDJRvYDbqEqS-2Rg_Tkz8Jhp6oCJmmdcZdD-Ujm2oMN7qKue9oF-uf7fBJP1BTOm8fD5fztON0vPPmjmc0P435YJ78DKu8/w480-h321/DSC_0018.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Like many others, I was out early on Monday morning, taking
photos of the snow and enjoying the rare treat. Many plants were weighed down
with snow but this is nothing new for most of vegetables and fruit trees we
grow this time of year as they hail from climes more severe than ours.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Chill Factor<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">In fact, the cold can add sweetness to vegetables such as
chicory and will ensure a good crop of apples, cherries and pears which have a
chill factor which means they require a certain number of hours below 7C to
ensure an even bloom period. During mild winters the chilling requirement may
not be met and will result in uneven bloom, and hence uneven pollination and
less fruit set. The table below suggests the chill hours required by various
fruits. Of course within, for example, apples, there are hundreds of varieties,
each differing slightly in its requirements but this table gives a general
guide.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" class="MsoNormalTable" style="background: white; mso-cellspacing: .7pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 80%px;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Apple 300 - 1200</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Chestnut 400 - 750</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Apricot 300 - 1000</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Almond 400 - 700</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Cherry â 500 - 800</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Walnut 400 â 1500</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Fig 100 - 500</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Avocado NONE</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Grapes 100 - 500</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Citrus NONE</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Kiwi 400 - 800</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Pear 150 - 1500</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Peach 150-1200</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Persimmon 100 - 700</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Pecan 150 - 1600</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Plum 275 - 1000</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Nectarine 150 - 1200</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Quince 100 - 500</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Pomegranate 100 - 300</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Olive 400 - 700</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now is your last chance to buy and plant out bare-rooted
fruit trees this year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">It seems ridiculous to be thinking of tomatoes while it is
snowing but August is the best time to start tomatoes from seed. <span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Basically, fruiting plants like
tomatoes, capsicums and eggplants need the longest growing season as they have
to first get to a good size, then flower, then the fruits must grow and finally
they need time to develop flavour and to ripen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Many of us have fires going all the
time right now and setting a tray of sown tomato seeds on the mantel is perfect
for germination but immediately you see green shoots emerging, they must be
given full sun or you will have spindly seedlings, with no strength from which
they struggle to ever recover.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bottom heat is best for germination and I always put a sheet
of glass over the tray to increase humidity and to stop mice from eating the
seeds (if they are in a hothouse) as late winter is a hungry time for mice as
they prepare for litters of babies. Into my little green house is where the
germinated seedlings go in order to get enough sunlight. <span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I use a 6m long, 50 watt, thin,
flexible, silicon cable taped to the underside of a 3 shelf, metal rack from
the tip-shop. The metal shelves ensure good heat transfer to my seed trays and
50W just keeps the soil at a nice temperature, without costing a lot to run. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Contrary
to some advice, it seems to me that it is perfectly possible to grow excellent
crops of big, delicious tomatoes, as we did last summer at the Cygnet Community
Garden. Now is the time to begin soil preparation. We chose a sunny spot,
covered in horrid grass. About this time last year we laid a sheet of weed mat
over the area and threw prunings, weeds etc on top. Then we left it for a month
or maybe 2, after which we dragged off the whole lot and put in a couple of
concerted human sessions to remove the couch runners. Once spring leapt into
action, huge amounts of runners shot again so then we put the chooks to work,
digging and scratching. Late October-ish we went over the whole area, loosening
the soil to a good forkâs depth. After more runners shot, we could then easily
pull them as we saw them and by mid- November we had a beautiful bed into which
we dug our favourite 5-in-1 organic fertiliser mix and a heap of our home made
compost. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">By now
our seedlings were well established in the poly tunnel and some were flowering
so they were put out to harden off, after all reasonable chance of frost had
passed. We also bought some unfamiliar varieties from the Botanic Gardens
Spring Sale. We laid out the plants, leaving 1m between each, which seems like
a lot but which is so important. Remarkably we had a few ripe tomatoes by
Christmas! We supplied all of us for months, with the best tomatoes I have seen
or eaten in Tasmania!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I
hesitate to mention varieties as every variety has its qualities, climatic
preferences and variabilities. So these are my suggestions, with which many may
not agree </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">âŚ.. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Early</b>:
Kotlas, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Flavour</b>: Black from Tula
(large and dense), black cherry (small) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Reliability</b>:
Marmande (medium, plentiful), Mama Mia (constant supply, lovely shape) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cooking: </b>Italian gold (large roma, very
prolific, long season). Of course there are many others. We saved seed from the
best plants with the best tomatoes and will be sowing them soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Oxalic Acid<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk110254847">Many leafy vegetables have large
amounts of oxalic acid in them, rhubarb being the highest concentration and
everyone knows not to eat rhubarb leaves or to give them to your chooks. Next
comes anything related to beets; silver beet, rainbow chard (which is
multi-coloured silver beet) and beetroot, for example. My mother always told me
that these need to be cooked in lots of boiling water and drained well. If I
want some greens to put in soup or to stir fry etc, I use leaves from the brassica
family such as kale, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, or radish leaves or chicory. I
eat a lot of greens so I like to vary what I eat. This table explains what I
mean.<o:p></o:p></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"></span><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Raw Vegetable<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Oxalate content
milligrams per 100 gram serving<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">750<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Beet greens<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">610<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Okra<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">146<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Parsley<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">100<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Leeks<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">89<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Brassicas<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk110254847;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">74<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Jobs
for August<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">During early August it is
important to spray Bordeaux or Burgundy mix, before bud burst, on:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">All peaches and
nectarines, for curly leaf prevention. Repeat in 2 weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Apples which had scab last
year<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Raspberry canes which
had leaf rust<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Plant
and sow in August<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Plant or divide rhubarb, strawberry
runners, raspberry canes, asparagus and get all deciduous trees and shrubs in
before they leaf.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Start sowing summer vegetables with bottom
heat:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Capsicums<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Chillis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">And while you
are waiting for them to mature, why not grow some sprouts in the kitchen for
a nutritious and delicious treat for your taste buds and body!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Sow now in
trays to plant out later:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Onions including red, salad, spring and most
others<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Broad beans (it is not too late)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Coriander<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Brassicas<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Asian greens<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Lettuces<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Peas (sow direct and protect from birds and snails)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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</div> (The day after writing this piece I picked up an old Organic Gardener magazine from 2011 which featured an article by Tasmanian chook man Paul Healy. Most of how I feed my chooks came from the advice Paul used to give on the radio on Saturday mornings, just as he describes in this magazine article.)<div>Various things are happening in my garden which indicate
that the plants know a thing or two about the season that I do not. Firstly, self-sown miners lettuce and corn
salad are both coming up at the same time. This is a treat because I love them
both and usually have to wait until almost the end of winter for the corn salad
to appear, which then grows quickly before running to seed. Another thing is
that frost has not yet knocked off the yacon leaves, which are very large and
generally have turned black by now, telling me it is time to harvest the
tubers. The BOM forecast for the southern Tasmania winter says we are in for
warmer than average days and nights during winter, with average rainfall. With
this in mind, I will wait for a while longer before covering my lemon tree with
fleece.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Sprouts and microgreens<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shorter days and low sun angle in Tasmania mean plant growth
is very slow during winter. These also affect humans, mentally and physically.
The best approach to maintaining your health and vitality at this time includes
making every mouthful as nourishing as possible. It is time to grow sprouts and
microgreens because those very first moments of a seedâs germination are packed
full of enzymes and nutrients. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SPROUTS (grown in a jar or container, without soil or the
need for sunlight) should be eaten when the growth is only a couple of mm long,
not left to grow long. My favourites are: lentils, chickpeas, fenugreek,
buckwheat, mung beans, all of which only take 2-3 days. Wash well before eating
to wash off the phytates. Some people prefer to blanch them before eating, but
I donât.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">MICROGREENS (sown thickly in a tray of soil and raised in a
sunny window or greenhouse) are cut with scissors and eaten when they have
their first true leaves after the initial 2 baby leaves. This may take 2 â 3
weeks. There is excellent information on the Green Harvest website. Anything
with edible leaves will make delicious, nutritious microgreens for salads.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Keeping chooks laying during winter<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are some absolutely gorgeous looking chooks but I have
chooks to lay eggs, to constantly turn my weeds, finished plants and autumn
leaves into compost, to chat with and to add their bedding to my worm farm. So,
I have hylines or isabrowns, which are chooks that have been bred to lay. I
donât have roosters. Every November I get 2 new, point of lay hylines because I
know from experience that 2 older chooks will die during the year, from old age
or raptor attack or something else (I rarely eat my chooks). Buying them in
November ensures that they get laying as we come into summer and they will keep
laying pretty much every day for at least 2 years. Having 2 young chooks seems
to also keep the older chooks in a laying frame of mind longer!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They have all day access to Red Hen grains (the one without
animal protein). In the late afternoon I give them a small amount of organic
wheat and sunflower seeds that have been soaked in water for 24 hours. If I
have some unused stock or milk or anything else, I use that but water is fine.
Soaked grain is more nutritious (as in the sprouts above) and feeding them late
in the day ensures that they go to bed with a full crop, which evidently keeps
them warmer at night.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They have access to water, which has a clove of garlic in
it, for their health and for worm control. I donât refresh their water until is
it running low. I donât find it necessary to treat them for anything
(parasites, mites etc). They love freshly picked greens and I give them some
most days, on the ground, held down by a brick, so they can tear off what they
need.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Their coop is deliberately airy, but dry. They have a big
free range area under the fruit trees and often out in my front garden, away
from my vegetables. Dust bathing is very important and the ground under the oak
trees stays fairly dry, which is handy. I donât fuss about with chook care! But
I talk to them and touch them or pick up them every day so they are easy for me
to handle if I need to trim their wings or deal with for any reason. New
chooks, like new puppies, learn from the older ones so having calm, happy,
older chooks is really important. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have not bought eggs for 20 years or more and currently
have 3 chooks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 10.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; page-break-after: avoid;"><b><u><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seeds to sow in June<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Sow
in the garden</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Broad
beans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Salad
and spring onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Shallots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Chives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">English
spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Radishes<u>
<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Sow
in trays to plant out later:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Brassicas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Globe
Artichokes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Coriander<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Chervil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Rocket<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Asian
greens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Free seeds
available at the Cygnet Seed Library (see facebook page)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 10.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; page-break-after: avoid;"><b><u><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Plant out<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Garlic
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Asparagus
crowns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Divide
rhubarb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Winter
herbs: coriander, chervil etc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Winter
flowering annuals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Globe
artichokes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Bulbs
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Asian
greens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Lettuce<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><b><u><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Winter Reading<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Herb: a
cookâs companion by Mark DiaconoâŚ. An absolutely fabulous book about making
the most of herbs, in every way <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Eat Wild
Tasmanian by Rees CampbellâŚ. About growing and eating Tasmanian edible plants<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">-Prune
deciduous trees except cherries and apricots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">-Feed
and mulch the dripline of fruit trees with anything you have, including
seaweed and good sprinklings of ash from the fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">-Collect
seaweed (especially kelp) after winter storms and cover your asparagus patch
with it. Brassicas also love it. Wonderful added to your compost too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">-Walk
in the forests and see the fungi</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">-Lacto-ferment
root veg and sprout seeds to add vitality and nourishment to your body during
winter.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">-Take time to
read, write, walk, swim, breathe, cook and think.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">-Make
a wonderful pesto with chervil and almonds / rocket and pistachios / parsley
and walnuts. ---Make hempseed butter for hot toast and honey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">-Check
out my blogs for food and gardening inspirationâŚ. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Vegetable
Vagabond and Gardeners Gastronomy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Summer has drifted in and out, the wind has howled and
abated, rain has pelted down, then evaporated and our tomatoes are slowly
ripening. Interestingly, my tomato plants are much taller than ever before, and
the first tomatoes to ripen, quite early on, were the big, luscious Black from
Tula. The most productive this year has been Jaune Flamme, which I only decided
to grow at the last minute. It just goes to show that it is worth planting a
diverse range of tomatoes and everything else.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Cuttings<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Autumn is an excellent time for taking cuttings. Cuttings in
autumn can be semi hardwood or hardwood, but not the floppy, green, very new
growth and not something that is in flower. Autumn cuttings are usually of
evergreen plants. Generally, only take cuttings of deciduous plants when they
have lost their leaves (in winter). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cut with clean secateurs just under some leaves, remove all
the leaves from at least 2 growing nodes above the cut. Reduce the number of
leaves on the rest of the stem, all the way to the top. Slip the cutting into
the soil (pot or ground) and water thoroughly. I donât bother with hormone
powder or anything.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I asked a couple of my gardenin friends how they prefer to strike
their cuttings. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sallyâs beautiful garden is grown almost entirely from
cuttings. Sally is a no-nonsense gardener and her plants must not be too fussy!
She chooses a spot in the ground that is damp, sheltered from wind and all but
a little easterly sun. The soil is friable, but not fertilised. Into that go
all her cuttings and there they stay until they shoot new leaves. Then they are
transplanted to their garden site. She rarely uses pots at all.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nick prefers to put his cuttings into medium size pots, 10
cuttings to a pot. The mix he uses varies according to the difficulty of
getting the cuttings to strike. Azaleas are tricky, geraniums are easy.
Generally it contains something water holding like coconut fibre, something
that drains, like sharp sand, plus some basic potting mix. They are kept somewhere
near the back door, out of wind and sun, so they can be kept damp and cared
for.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I generally take cuttings only when I am pruning. I have a
bucket of water near me and nestle them in there while I complete the pruning.
Oh dearâŚ. sometimes they stay in that bucket, or in a jar in the kitchen for a
couple of weeks. Ideally, I would remove them from the water on the same day I
cut them and put them in pots, similar to Nickâs method. However, I usually
poke a few taller bamboo sticks in the pot and, after watering well, I cover
the whole thing with a plastic bag, with a rubber band around the pot to hold
it on. I am likely to ignore them for at least a couple of months then I check
to see how they are going and replace the bag again until they shoot new
leaves. Then I remove the bag, leave them a little longer before transplanting
to individual pots.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><i>Alliums<o:p></o:p></i></h1><div><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Onions, garlic, shallots, potato onions, walking onions,
leeks, elephant garlic, chives and garlic chives are all alliums and have been
grown for thousands of years, in many parts of the world. Alliums all have day
length requirements, some preferring shortening days, some lengthening days,
some a little more flexible. In autumn we sow and plant those that prefer or
will tolerate shortening days to get them started, then lengthening days to
finish off (towards next summer). These include garlic, shallots, potato
onions, elephant garlic and walking onions. I have talked about growing garlic
previously, in many of these garden guides so now it is the turn for the other
alliums that suitable to plant now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I went to the Koonya Garlic Festival last time it was on and
heard an excellent talk by Tino, all about alliums and got totally enthused.
So, last autumn I planted potato onions that I got from a friend. It was a
roaring success. Each one produced 10 or more small onions, up to 20! They shot
quickly, grew strong stems all winter then bulbed up during spring but took
ages to dry off, which is when they are ready to harvest. I harvested in
January. They are great for pickling or throwing in a baking dish or stew. I
spoke to Tino at the Spring Bay Sunflower Festival in Feb. and he said you can
plant the potato onions in spring too, to save on garden spaceâŚ.. but I am
going to plant them in autumn again because it was so successful.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Steve Solomon suggests, in his book âGrowing Vegetables
South of Australiaâ putting shallots (and late garlic varieties) in the fridge
for a month, starting early to mid March, before planting out in April, as this
breaks their dormancy so readying them into faster sprouting once planted out
and gives them plenty of shortening days to grow a good set of leaves before
they start bulbing up in spring. I am going to do this for my potato onions
because I harvested so late.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Give all alliums a friable, fertile soil with good drainage,
adding lime, if necessary, to about neutral or slightly alkaline, but
definitely not acidic. Peter Cundall uses fire ash in place of lime and digs in
old sheep manure and biochar.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Look for potato onions, elephant garlic and other alliums at
markets plus online and our Crop Swap Cygnet and Surrounds facebook page.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seeds to sow
in March<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Plant out now<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Salsify<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Burdock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Tas. swede<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Carrot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Parsnip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Broad beans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Daikon radish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Asian vegetables<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Coriander, pennyroyal, cress <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b>Seeds to harvest in
March<o:p></o:p></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Orach<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Fennel<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Sunflowers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Calendula<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Chives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Elephant garlic, potato onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the Cygnet Seed Library every second Sunday, 2pm at the old CBA, 17 Mary
Street. Details on facebook.*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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â 4pm at The Cannery. Fundraiser for refugees moving to the Huon. Talks,
stalls, food, coffee. See you there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">It seems that autumn has arrived, with few tomatoes ripening
but lots of fabulous beans and no bushfires in our area. The paddocks that have
had hay cut are green again, with the cool summer and frequent showers. We have
a lot to be grateful for, here in southern Tasmania.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><i>Alliums<o:p></o:p></i></h1><div><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Onions, garlic, shallots, potato onions, walking onions,
leeks, elephant garlic, chives and garlic chives are all alliums and have been
grown for thousands of years, in many parts of the world. Alliums all have day
length requirements; some preferring shortening days, some lengthening days,
some a little more flexible. In autumn we sow and plant those that prefer or
will tolerate shortening days to get them started then lengthening days to
finish off (towards next summer). These include garlic, shallots, potato
onions, elephant garlic and walking onions. I have talked about growing garlic
previously, in many of these garden guides so now it is the turn for the other
alliums that suitable to plant now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I went to the Koonya Garlic Festival last weekend and heard
an excellent talk by Tino, all about alliums and am totally enthused. I have
never grown regular onions as one seed produces only one onion and it seems a
lot of work, when onions are so cheap. So now I am going to grow shallots and
potato onions, that, like garlic, can be grown from a clove and produce a head
or cluster of themselves and which are quite expensive to buy for eating. And I
will again grow elephant garlic (really a type of garlicky leek), to harvest at
the leek stage, before forming bulbs, as at that stage they have thick, long,
white shanks of the most incredible flavour; the longest white shank of any
leek I have ever grown. I donât like the bulbs but let a few go to seed and
form the underground bulbs and bulblets, for replanting and also for the beauty
of the allium flowers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Steve Solomon suggests, in his book âGrowing Vegetables
South of Australiaâ putting shallots (and late garlic varieties) in the fridge
for a month, starting early to mid March, before planting out in April, as this
breaks their dormancy so readying them into faster sprouting once planted out
and gives them plenty of shortening days to grow a good set of leaves before
they start bulbing up in spring.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Potato onions grow clusters of small onions underground and
can be excellent keepers like shallots but have a stronger oniony flavour than
shallots. They can be used for eating or pickling and I do so love pickled
onions!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Give all alliums a friable, fertile soil with good drainage,
adding lime, if necessary, to about neutral or slightly alkaline, but
definitely not acidic. Peter Cundall uses fire ash in place of lime and digs in
old sheep manure and biochar.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Steve says that shallots can manage a heavier soil because
they form at the soil surface, unlike garlic and potato onions and elephant
garlic which grow deeper. He recommends planting shallots 30cms apart with 45
cms between rows. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where do we source shallots, potato onions and elephant
garlic? Shallots should be available from a local greengrocer (it is too late
for shallots to grow from seed for autumn sowing but you can sow in early
spring, for a summer crop). Look for potato onions and elephant garlic at
markets and online crop swap facebook pages.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">Edible Flowers and seeds<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">Almost everything that has
been growing over summer is striving to reproduce before winter. Many of the
flowers and seeds are not only edible but actually delicious. My favourite is
probably the yellow flowers and developing seeds of Florence Fennel (not the
wild fennel, as I find that too strong and the seeds too coarse). Donât rip
your summer vegetables out before exploring their second and third edible
crops, such as the flowers and seeds! Save the dried seeds of lettuce,
shungiku, French sorrel, Florence fennel, rainbow chard etc, to sow again, as
they are adapting to your garden. This is very important as our climate
changes.</span><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis"><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">Society garlic makes a
pretty, edible border and survives very dry soil. Right now the little pink
flowers are blooming and make a wonderful, garlicky addition to salads. Garlic
chive flowers are white and grow on tall stalks, which are both pretty and
deliciously garlicky. </span><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis"><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">The Cosmos in my garden are
flowering, producing masses of bright, edible flowers. I also have had amaranth
and shiso, both providing an abundance of delicious red and green leaves all
summer. Now the long, magnificent tassels of the red amaranth are breath taking
and soon will be laden with the tiny amaranth seeds, which are a so-called
superfood that is expensive to buy but so easy to grow!</span><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis"><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h1><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">Pumpkin vine care<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">The single, little, pumpkin plant (of the Peter Cundall
variety) I got from someone has rambled far and wide, at break-neck speed,
flowering with both male and female flowers very quickly. Consequently, since
it has 6 well-formed pumpkins now, I have cut off all the long leaders beyond
those pumpkins. Six is more than enough for the plant to put energy into
developing and maturing. I will remove all future flowers and long growth. I
may give it some Charlie Carp liquid feed too. Now is the time to plan what to
put there next, when it is harvested later in April or even MayâŚ.. perhaps
broad beans.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sow in March<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Plant out now<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Salsify<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Burdock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Tas. swede<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Carrot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Parsnip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Broad beans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Daikon radish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Asian vegetables<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Coriander, pennyroyal, cress <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Put shallots and late garlic into the fridge for a month,
to break dormancy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Take cuttings of<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Evergreen
herbs such as rosemary and sage<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Good sized European brassicas (it is too late for punnets)
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spring onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Chives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Elephant garlic, potato onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Celery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Silver beet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spring bulbs (ixias, daffodils etc) Water well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Evergreen shrubs and trees (only after we get a good rain.
Otherwise hold off until April)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div></p><p class="MsoNormal">My garden has been blasted by winds from the north west and
south west, drying everything out, no matter how much I water. I am rarely
despondent about my garden but, after the fires and smoke and stresses<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of January then the winds of February, all I
can do is learn and implement some strategies for the future.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lesson 1: Shelter<o:p></o:p></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">My cucumbers have thrived for several reasons and the first
is that they are sheltered from all wind. They needed no extra water than
normal and have produced a continuous supply of beautiful, healthy, crisp,
Dragonâs Egg cucumbers for months. They are sheltered by a deep bank of
shrubbery to the north and by being at the bottom of a slope, so that the westerlies
just blew over the top and hit the trees on the other side. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not only does the shrubbery provide wind shelter but, if you
choose right, you will encourage beneficial insects and birds as well as
healthy soil life. In this part of my garden the shrubbery is only about a
metre high but very dense, allowing sun even as we move into autumn, but little
wind. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In another area I planted out broccoli seedlings and, to
save them from cabbage moths, I made a frame and covered it with white
shadecloth. Co-incidentally, this heavy duty shadecloth also protected the
seedlings from the daily blast of the westerlies that howled through my wire,
boundary fence, along which my shrubbery is still very young. Those broccoli
seedlings are now big and strong and dark green, compared with some of my
unsheltered tomatoes only a few metres away that look miserable and copped the
wind severely.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lesson 2: The Soil<o:p></o:p></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Long before I planted out the cucumbers, I densely sowed
broad beans as a green manure crop, quite late, some time in early winter,
after last yearâs tomatoes had finished and been removed. In October when the
broad beans were just starting to flower, I trampled them down with my feet so
they were lying all in the same direction, then chopped them up with my spade.
I threw over some biochar and sheep manure. I didnât dig it all in but I did
push my fork in and loosen the soil below, allowing some bits to fall through.
Then I watered it all well, before covering with some rotting, wet, old hay and
leaving it until early December when I dusted over some potash and planted the
tiny cucumber seedlings. By this time every bit of the broad bean leaves and
stalks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and roots (which I left in the
soil) had been composted in situ by the soil life and the hay too was almost
gone. The cucumbers grew like mad the minute they landed and never looked back.
They grew so fast that I didnât get a chance to mulch them but they soon
provided their own soil cover as they spread. Nevertheless, they needed very
little water all summer. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another example of the importance of looking after the
microbes and other soil life is the wind blasted tomatoes which, in December,
before wind or smoke, produced fantastic, early, ripe tomatoes. This previously
deep hay method bed was also the one where I planted tomatoes amongst some
self-sown companion plants, such as calendulas, nasturtiums, garlic chives and
sweet cicely. The tomatoes flowered and produced very early. Interestingly
though, the plants did not grow very big but managed to support dense clusters
of ripe tomatoes very low to the ground. Once the heat and smoke then winds
arrived, these poor tomatoes suffered so my idea of having 3 separate tomato
beds turned out to be a good one.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Garlic<o:p></o:p></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">The recent Koonya Garlic Festival has put garlic at the
forefront of my mind and I will be preparing beds this week. What it comes down
to is that, whatever garlic cultivars you choose to grow, the health of your
soil microbes will determine how well the flavour develops. The growth of the
bulb itself will be determined by soil and weather.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Garlic does not need a lot of fertility but it needs humus
(well rotted organic matter) for the soil microbes to be well fed. Here is what
I am going to do:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dig to a spadeâs depth and loosen any clumps.
This does not mean turning the soil. It means loosening and working it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dig in plenty of aged sheep manure (I am saving
my compost for brassicas and other greens as I donât have enough for everything)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dig in a well known, pelletised seaweed, fish,
humic acid and manure product available in large buckets.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Really concentrate on improving the structure of
the soil, with elbow and back grease!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Mention was made of lactobacillus bacteria so I
might dilute some kefir or pickle juice and pour it over!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Water, mulch and leave, removing the mulch at
planting time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Plant out at times according to what garlic you
have.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The planting, harvest and storage times depend on the
cultivars you grow. I will be planting my 3 cultivars from late March onwards. First
is what is locally called Tassie Purple, which is a softneck and will be ready
in about December. Next, in about May, I will plant 2 hard necks: Dungansky and
a Creole. They will be dug late January or even February. These are the ones
that grow the long, curly stalks called scapes, which make excellent pesto.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sow in March<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Plant out now<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Salsify<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Burdock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Tas. swede<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Carrot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Parsnip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Broad beans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Asian vegetables<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spring and salad onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Coriander, pennyroyal, cress <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Take cuttings of<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Evergreen
herbs such as rosemary and sage<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spring onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Chives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Leeks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Celery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Silver beet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spring bulbs (ixias, daffodils etc) Water well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Evergreen shrubs and trees (only after we get a good rain.
Otherwise hold off until April)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</div></p><p class="MsoNormal">I wandered around my garden this morning, taking notes about
what is happening, in order to write this garden guide direct from plot to page.
It only took a few minutes for me to realise that there is more happening this
time of the year in my garden than I can fit into this column. You may find
this surprising when autumn is on the doorstep but, actually, life never stops
in the food garden.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Seed saving<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every part of the kitchen garden is getting ready for winter
by flowering, fruiting and setting seeds. Tomatoes, zucchinis, cucumbers and
beans are all produced by plants in order to make seeds and reproduce
themselves. It just so happens that we humans jump in and harvest their fruits
before the seeds mature. If you leave a few unpicked you will be able to save
the seeds later, when the fruits are fully mature and beginning to go mushy (ie
well past the time we would pick them to eat) or brown and dry (in the case of
bean pods). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have left some broad bean plants in a back corner of the
garden, after harvesting most of them back in November. The pods are now crisp
and almost black; perfect for collecting and saving, ready to sow in a few weeks.
Similarly, there are literally hundreds of seeds, dry now and ready to collect,
on a couple of the best of my rainbow chard, which I tied up to a stake and
allowed to flower and set seeds after months of fabulous, brilliantly green
leaves and incredibly red stalks. They stand tall and brown and heavy with seed
now, amongst the fresh, green cucumber plants I sowed back in December. In this
way barely any space is taken up by the seeding rainbow chard as the leaves are
long gone and all that is standing is the trunk, topped with a heavy head of
seeds, tied to a stake.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is nothing better for you and your family, for eliminating food miles, for food
security of our region and for the health of the whole earth than saving seeds.
Of all the options we are presented with to help reduce our carbon footprint,
none surpasses growing food from seed that has been saved and shared in your
own area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If
you donât want to save your own seed, look for locally saved seed at any of our
great Huon Valley markets or check out Crop Swap Cygnet online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk34040419"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">Edible
Flowers and seeds<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk34040419;"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">Almost everything that has been growing over summer is
striving to reproduce before winter. Many of the flowers and seeds are not only
edible but actually delicious. My favourite is probably the yellow flowers and
developing seeds of Florence Fennel (not the wild fennel, as I find that too
strong and the seeds too coarse). Donât rip your summer vegetables out before
exploring their second and third edible crops, such as the flowers and seeds! </span><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis"><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk34040419;"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">Society garlic makes a pretty, edible border and
survives very dry soil. Right now the little pink flowers are blooming and make
a wonderful, garlicky addition to salads. </span><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis"><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk34040419;"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">The Cosmos in my garden have been flowering for
months, producing masses of bright, edible flowers. I also have amaranth and
shiso, both providing an abundance of delicious red and green leaves all
summer. Now the long, magnificent tassels of the red amaranth are breath taking
and soon will be laden with the tiny amaranth seeds, which are a so-called
superfood that is expensive to buy but so easy to grow!</span><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis"><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">Drying Herbs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">March is the time to cut and
dry herbs such as oregano, while they are in full flower. Around the
Mediterranean Sea people have foraged for flowering oregano since ancient times,
hanging the tall stems in a warm, dry place then storing them for use in winter
soups and stews. </span><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis"><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis">I also cut boughs of lemon
verbena and let the vivid green leaves dry fully before packing them into jars
and using as my evening tea during winter and spring, when the plants are
dormant.</span><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis"><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h1><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Garlic</span></span><i><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">What it comes down to is that, whatever garlic cultivars you
choose to grow, the state of your soil will determine how well the flavour
develops. The growth of the bulb itself will be determined by soil and weather.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Garlic does not need a lot of fertility but it needs humus
(well rotted organic matter) and for the soil microbes to be well fed. Here is
what I am going to do to prepare my soil for this yearâs crop:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dig to a spadeâs depth and loosen any clumps<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dig in plenty of aged sheep manure (cow would be
even better, I am saving my compost for brassicas and other greens)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dig in a well-known, pelletised seaweed, fish,
humic acid and manure product available in large buckets.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Really concentrate on improving the structure of
the soil, with elbow and back grease!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Mention is sometimes made of the benefits of
lactobacillus bacteria in garlic growth so I might dilute some kefir or pickle
juice and pour it over!<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Water, mulch and leave, or sow a quick green
manure.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Plant out at times according to what garlic you
have.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The planting, harvest and storage times depend on the
cultivars you grow. I will be planting 3 cultivars that I saved from last year,
from late March onwards. I suggest you search online for âTasmanian Gourmet Garlicâ
and a book called âGarlicâ.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Salsify<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Parsnip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spring and salad onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Coriander, pennyroyal, cress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spring onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Chives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Celery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have been gardening all summer. In fact, I have been
gardening solidly for a whole year, without going away anywhere at all. Such
was 2020! But, last weekend I stayed at Triabunna and went to the Spring Bay
Mill Sunflower Festival. Marcus Ragus, who I would claim to be Tasmaniaâs leading
horticulturalist, has been in charge of creating a 4 hectare food garden down
by the sea, on part of the old Triabunna Wood Mill site, which is 42 hectares
in total. He will also be creating more gardens and doing bush rehabilitation
on another 30 hectares or so. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was from Marcus that I first learnt about the deep hay
method of gardening, as a means of raising fertility, getting rid of twitch
etc, improving biodiversity and feeding the microbes. The Spring Bay food garden
is run totally on this method and you ought to see the results, in just 2
years! I came away re-inspired to follow my passion for the largely self-sown,
mostly deep hay, biodiverse, food gardening system. It was truly wonderful to
spend all day wandering the gardens and listening to Marcus Ragus, Tino
Carnevale and Angus Stewart filling the heads and hearts of a few hundred
gardeners with their knowledge. There were also walks and talks and
demonstrations of making fermented compost, gardening with all sorts of bees
and hives, and plenty more.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Roots, Weeds and Paths<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Roots are doing amazing things down under the surface; even
more than I realised. Roots are dealing with all the microbes, worms, fungi,
bacteria and air while growing through the soil. Some roots are actually
benefitting all the other plants in their vicinity too. Mulberries and
sunflowers are two such plants. That was part of the reason for a sunflower
festival; to highlight not just their beauty but their usefulness growing
amongst the vegetables and herbs. <span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Plants that grow near sunflowers and mulberries
benefit from this association. I have noticed that everything growing near and
under my mulberry tree is so healthy and lush and now I know why. At Spring
Bay, sunflowers are everywhere and they have planted a whole semi-circle of
mulberries on the edge of a large, curved bed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When most annual vegetables and herbs finish producing, I just
cut them at ground level and leaves the roots to dissolve back into the ground.
For sunflowers you can leave the strong stem in the ground and, if you have a
clump of them, they can be used in-situ as next springâs pea poles. Planting
brassicas amongst the sunflowers in late summer, as they begin to die back, can
help confuse the cabbage mothsâŚ.. perfect!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In spring and summer the paths in the vegetable garden are
where I toss most of the weeds and finishing vegetable debris, including old
sunflower leaves. (Or I just lay some on the garden surface, if the weeds donât
have seeds.) As I tread it all down on the paths, it all goes back into the
soil. Eventually, during winter and early spring, I scoop up all the resulting
compost with my spade and put it back on the garden, ready to start again. Thick
stems on the paths can get be treacherous so they get tossed amongst the
shrubbery and trees, to rot away slowly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="background: white;">Biodiversity<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you go into a forest or walk by the sea or a river, or,
in fact, anywhere in its natural habitat, you will see that plants live
together; you wonât see one plant here, one plant there, with space and bare
soil all around, so I am not sure why people plant vegetables like this! The
Spring Bay garden and my garden are packed with plants; tall ones, young ones,
flowering ones, old ones, climbing ones and creeping ones all together. There are
bees and insects doing all the work, so we never have problems to deal with.
Marcus even plants grasses, especially barley, in clumps in the vegetable
garden beds because grasses do such goodâŚ.. but I tell you now, I have grasses
in my garden that I would LOVE to get rid of. Some grasses are definitely
better than others! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you want to improve your gut health, you need to eat as
much variety of food plants as you can. Having a biodiverse garden is a great
way to ensure you and your environment are healthy. Your garden becomes a place
to forage and nibble.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Cygnet Seed Library launch party<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Cygnet Seed Library will be set up on the verandah of
Oura Oura House and will contain locally saved seeds for you, the community,
for free. To find out more, please do come to our launch party at Oura Oura
House from 6pm â 9pm, this Friday, Feb. 5<sup>th</sup>. There will be seed
saving demos, chats about seeds and some lawn games! <o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Side dressing time<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Side dressing means a supplementary feed once the plants are
well established. A good thing to do for hungry plants in our short summer
season to keep them powering along before the weather changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now is a good time to side dress fruit
producing vegetables, such as tomatoes, zucchinis, pumpkins, capsicums and
eggplants (if you are clever enough to grow them here). A dose of potash, well
watered-in with a watering can of fish fertiliser (preferably the one that uses
carp, which is a pest fish in the Murray River) and seaweed extract is my
recommendation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Early February is the last chance to feed your citrus
because new growth stimulated to grow later, when autumn is approaching, will
result in the tips being burnt off, even if the plants are in a sheltered
place, simply because of the cold on tender citrus shoots. I use the carp fish
fertiliser.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Seeds to sow in Feb.<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Broccoli raab<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Kale<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Beetroot<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Shungiku<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Asian greens
(late Feb.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Carrots<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Spinach &
silver beet<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Spring onions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Leeks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Hakurei
turnips<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tas. swedes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Parsnips<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Radishes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u>Seeds
to save in Feb<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Shungiku<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Calendular
marigolds<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Plant out /pot up now, yes now<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Brussel
sprouts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Cauliflower<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Broccoli â
regular, sprouting and raab<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Salad
vegetables<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Leeks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Jobs for February<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Plant, feed
or move citrus<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Summer prune
stone fruits<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Prepare beds
for autumn plantings<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Save seeds
for next spring<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Mulch with
wet straw/silage<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Give
flowering veg a dose of potash<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Preserve,
cook, nourish<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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</div></p><p class="MsoNormal">So much has happened, in Australia and the world, since my
last kitchen garden guide in December. Last year at this time we were in the
midst of the fires. More than ever, food security is at risk, making it
imperative that communities grow whatever they can for themselves. Tasmania can
produce most of what we need, starting in our back yards and those of our
neighbours and friends and on the small farms we see dotted about on the hills
and valleys of our beautiful state. Bush foods abound too and more and more plants
are becoming available at everyday outlets and specialty nurseries, propagated
in Tasmania, by Tasmanians, as it should be. We are so very fortunate; letâs
make use of our situation and grow food for one another. Check out âCrop Swapsâ
near you and online.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Potting up seedlings<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Locally grown seedlings are a great investment. Mostly,
those at the Cygnet market and other markets are grown from seed saved in
Tasmania, for Tasmanian conditions. If you, like me, quickly run out of space
to plant out winter crops, in the middle of the summer vegetable garden, then
transplanting punnet seedlings into individual pots is my suggestion. Brassicas
are quite happy to grow this way for quite a while but you will need to pot
them up again, into bigger pots, along the way. It is easy to protect them from
the cabbage moth, with a wire basket and lace curtain from the tip shop. I use
a cheap, basic potting mix to which I add some blood and bone and SeaMungus.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Greenhouse materials<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have a tiny, old, lean-to greenhouse attached to the
eastern side of my house. It has proven to be excellent in several ways. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The sides are made of a heavy duty, greenish solarweave
film, which lets in lots of light but no direct sun, so everywhere in the
greenhouse is brilliantly light but nothing gets burnt or overheated, even on
the hottest day. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Being a lean-to, it is quite low on the eastern
side so the sun comes through the sloping, plastic roof for quite a while. This
is old, floppy plastic film, that also is not clear. It works perfectly but if
starting again, I would use coreflute, for longevity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->On the northern and southern ends there are
louvre windows, which I keep open most of the year. The door is also on the
southern side. A wire screen door would be nice, so animals canât get in even
when the main door is open.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->An old brick wall runs in a U shape, along both
sides of where I walk in and centre path is also brick. This holds some heat
and keeps everything tidy on the raised beds. Instead of soil beds, I would
prefer staggered shelves as it really is not necessary to actually grow
vegetables for their whole life, in a greenhouse in Tasmania. I use it to start
things off, to protect plants from the wind and for cuttings etc. I do,
however, grow 6 large pots of basil in there and I have a sticky, nicotiana plant
which catches aphids and white fly, growing in the ground. In winter, I bring
some pots in, for frost protection, for example ornamental ginger.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The greenhouse sticks out from the house on the
northern side and gets many hours of low, winter sun. This is perfect. It is
important to look at the angle of the sun from the horizon here, because 43
degrees south brings the sun very low in winter.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The western side is the wall of the house so the
greenhouse is totally shaded, but still very light in summer, in the afternoon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Pear and cherry slug<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you see tiny little black âwormsâ on the leaves of your
pears, cherries, quinces and even plums and the leaves are turning brown and
crisp, you have this slug. A simple control is to spray the entire tree with a
mist of water then throw ash all over it. Do this a couple of times and they
will be desiccated. Try to stand up-wind!<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Managing wind<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Fruit trees:</u> Quince fruit seems to stay on despite
summer wind, as do plums, apples, olives and Kentish cherries. Contrary to what
you hear, citrus also seem to thrive on my verandah and in my garden despite
the wind. Young trees bearing fruit will snap off in the wind so staking is
necessary. I espalier my Bramley apple as the fruit are way too big and
prolific for the branches. This means that the trellis takes the weight of the
fruit and far fewer seem to drop off. If you live in a very windy area, I recommend
you espalier the perimeter of your garden with fruit trees, all the way around.
Actually this is a wonderful, practical and beautiful way to grow fruit and is
common in many English and French gardens. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Tomatoes:</u> When I plant my tomatoes out, I push in
next to each one a tall, steel, twisty pole (available at Shiploads). As the
tomato grows, the pole is shaped perfectly so the new tomato growth can be
wound around the pole. Then I make circular,wire cages 720mm diameter and as
high as you can buy the stiff, 50mm hole roll. 1200mm is good here, 1500mm
would be lovely. Mine are only 900mm and is adequate. I bought a 30m roll. It
is excellent quality and will last forever. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Seeds to sow in Feb.<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Broccoli raab<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Kale<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Beetroot<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Shungiku<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Asian greens
(late Feb.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Carrots<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Spinach &
silver beet<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Spring onions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Leeks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Hakurei
turnips<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tas. swedes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Parsnips<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Radishes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u>Seeds
to save in Feb<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Shungiku<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Calendular
marigolds<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Plant out /pot up now, yes now<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Brussel
sprouts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Cauliflower<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Broccoli â regular,
sprouting and raab<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Salad
vegetables<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Leeks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Jobs for February<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Plant, feed
or move citrus<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Summer prune
stone fruits<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Prepare beds
for autumn plantings<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Save seeds
for next spring<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Mulch with
wet straw/silage<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Give
flowering veg a dose of potash<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Preserve,
cook, nourish<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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</div></p><p class="MsoNormal">It has been quite difficult to think about anything other
than the fires these last few days. Air quality has ranged from moderate to
hazardous and back again, as the smoke settles then shifts. (Check out
aqicn.org for real time air quality world wide). What does this mean for our
gardens? Many plants shut down during such conditions so if you are noticing
reduced vigour and fruit set, this is probably why. Time will set them right
again, hopefully! Some of our native plants respond by opening cones and seed
pods, having evolved to respond to fire reducing competition and in
anticipation of better chances of survival.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><u>My tomato experiment<o:p></o:p></u></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">I planted 5 tomatoes in each of 3 different situations in my
garden. Here are the results so far:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Planted in a well prepared and deep hay mulched
bed surrounded by self sown nasturtiums, calendular, sweet cicely and rocket,
and edged by garlic chives, sage, horse radish and Chilean guavas. These
tomatoes produced good sized, ripe tomatoes very quickly. I have had to water only
a couple of times so far. The plants are healthy but shorter than I expect at
this time. They are mostly laden to breaking point with tomatoes but the one
near the horseradish is not so great. Difficult to water the whole bed because
I cannot use the sprinkler on the tomatoes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Planted in a regular, unmulched garden bed where
I had dug in weeds and other finished greenery well before panting time and
added the same things as in the first bed. The tomato plants are tall and
strong but have needed a lot of watering. Now I have mulched them this may
improve. Only 2 ripe cherry tomatoes and one other but nothing more yet. Fruit
are slow and quite sparse.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Planted into a bed where I had tomatoes last
year and with not as much preparation as I usually do but I ran out of time to
do more just then. Lightly mulched. Next to 2 purple sprouting broccoli that I
have left so I can gather seed. These are not very happy but have produced a
few smaller than average ripe tomatoes. They have not drooped at all so I have
not watered as much as bed 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What this tells me, in a rough and ready kind of way, is
that, unlike my previous understanding, tomatoes love companions. Under the
right conditions they will need very little water to produce excellent fruits,
right from the start. What it also highlights is that it is good not to have
all your eggs in one basket because, if there had been a lot of rain instead of
being dry, then bed one may have suffered from so much wet foliage all around
the tomatoes and bed 2 may have been the best <span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">đ</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Making use of old terracotta pots for watering<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">When it is hot and dry, it is time for the terracotta pot
treatment. I seal up the hole in the bottom of some old, chipped terracotta
pots by sticking something over it with silicon, put them into the ground up to
their necks and filled them with water, then put on a lid and let the water
soak out into soil that I have watered well, to get it started. Keep refilling
the pots. In Adelaide, I planted lettuce seedlings around some pots then celery
and beans around another. This kept 5 lettuce plants growing happily through a
heatwave (2 weeks over 40C and humidity at 3%) and I even went out and could
pick leaves in the hottest part of the day, and they were crisp......amazing.
The beans grew fast and strong and the celery was the best I had ever grown and
only went to seed after 6 months of eating the stems piece by piece, all
through summer and beyond ...that's pretty good!<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Cucumbers<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was very organised in one area of my garden! In a spot
that is too shady in winter for brassicas, I sowed broad beans only for the
purpose of digging them in just as they began to flower, as a green manure. (I
had broad beans for eating, elsewhere). This I did in October, adding a whole
bag of sheep manure and some locally made biochar as I dug. In December I sprinkled
around some potash and planted out some Dragonâs Egg cucumber seedlings from
the Seed Freaks open day. They burst into growth and have produced heaps of
little, apple cucumbers which are crisp and delicious. Originating in Croatia,
this variety is a winner for Tasmania even in slightly shady spots. I will be
saving these seeds for sure. They would be lovely on a frame, with the prolific
eggs hanging belowâŚ.a perfect use for my winter bamboo harvest.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Hlk31522724">Pear and cherry slug<o:p></o:p></a></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522724;">If you see tiny
little black âwormsâ on the leaves of your pears, cherries, quinces and even
plums and the leaves are turning brown and crisp, you have this slug. A simple
control is to spray the entire tree with a mist of water then throw ash or lime
all over it. Do this a couple of times and they will be desiccated. Try to
stand up-wind!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522724;"></span>
<h1>To water young trees<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">To water fruit or other important trees: Buy a roll of the
porous, black hose made from recycled tyres. Run it around THE DRIP LINE of the
tree (where the roots are!), not near the trunk (where the roots are not!).
Join into a circle with a T-piece that has a click on fitting so you can
connect your hose to it. Cover with thick, preferably woody mulch. These ooze
very slowly so leave it running for 3 or more hours, until the soil is wet down
at least 30cms because that is where the roots should be. Do this once a month
to encourage deep roots.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk31522899"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Seeds to sow
now<o:p></o:p></u></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Broccoli raab<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Kale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Beetroot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Shungiku<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Asian greens (late Feb.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Carrots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Spinach & silver beet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Spring onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Hakurei turnips<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Tas. swedes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Parsnips<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Radishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Plant
out now, yes now, not later<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Brussel sprouts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Cauliflower<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Broccoli â regular, sprouting and raab<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Jobs
for February<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Plant or move citrus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Summer prune stone fruits<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Prepare beds for autumn plantings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Save seeds for next spring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31522899;">Enjoy your garden!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have just come inside from planting out some lettuce
seedlings. It is a bit late in the season but I have been away for a couple of
weeks and today is my first opportunity since returning. The thing is that
right now, after bits and pieces of gentle rain, is the perfect time to scoop up
some of the beautiful soil that my 3 lovely chooks have been making for me all
summer. I throw lots of weeds and finished plants etc in the chook yard and the
chooks spend everyday turning it all into soil / compost for me. When I clean
out the laying boxes and roosting hay, that all goes on top of the heap and
eventually it goes out into the garden. Systems make life so lovely! Why would
I buy soil or compost when I have chooks to make it for me!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, I made 6 dents down into the rotted hay mulch, which I
had piled on top of some weeds in a garden bed before I went away, then put a
cupped handful or two of chook yard soil into the dents and planted my lettuce
seedlings in. Next, I covered each with a plastic milk container, right way up,
lid removed and with the bottoms cut off, to give them a warmer, sheltered
start. I rarely buy milk in plastic and these are all several years old,
re-used over and over.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Cygnet Autumn Garden Market<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sunday, May 22nd, 11am â 3pm, at The Cannery. All things
gardening. All inside. Stalls, presentations, food, coffee plus pumpkin
competitions for everyone young and old: bring something creative you have made
with or about pumpkins, bring your best pumpkin scones, bring your longest
tromboncino! Guess the weight of my pumpkin, enjoy face painting and colouring
in as well as other pumpkin games and fun. Bring some seeds of your favourite
pumpkin, to share. Bring whatever pumpkins you have grown, to join our display
of Cygnet Pumpkin Patch Mania (write your name on them so you can collect them
again, from my place, on Monday). Prizes will be cute little pumpkin candles
made by a local family.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>More about the chook yard<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">The winter/spring product I appreciate most is their
production of the most beautiful leaf soil from the fallen leaves of two large
oak trees that overhang the chook yard. Thousands of oak leaves fall from now
into winter and form a very thick layer of gorgeous dry leaves which is the
playground for the chooks all winter. They constantly turn it, manure it and
crush it, while the rain dampens it, resulting in a very fine, deliciously
soft, quite acidic, leaf mould or leaf soil by mid spring. I rake it up and
spread it around liberally wherever acid loving plants grow (such as
blueberries, strawberries, azaleas, camellias, some Tasmanian native forest
plants etc) and where I am going to plant acid loving vegetables such as
tomatoes. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Garlic<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Plant
out hard neck varieties in May and even June. In spring they will produce tall,
curly, green stems called scapes, which are fabulously delicious. I leave some
to grow scapes but some I cut off so more energy goes into growing the bulbs.
These will be ready to harvest in January or even February and have a hard
stem, right down into the garlic head. In a wet summer, these survive better than
the softnecks as they are less prone to rot because of the way they grow tight
around the hard neck. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Check
out Tasmanian Gourmet Garlic website and Facebook page for excellent, local
information about growing garlic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If
you have garlic that is sprouting and cannot use it all, you can simply plant
the cloves close together into some wide pots and use it later, like spring
onions or prop the garlic cloves up in decorative bowls, inside the house,
without soil. Keep the roots damp but not too wet and trim with scissors to
sprinkle into salads and soups. They will take a few clips before they become
exhausted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Onions and day length<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Long-keeping onions like those you usually see in shops, are
very sensitive to day length. They prefer to grow during lengthening days, that
is after that shortest day. Grow them at the wrong time and, in spring, they
will not bulb up. Seeds can be sown late May but best in June (according to
Peter Cundall), so that plant growth occurs in the cold of winter and with
lengthening days. However, salad onions, spring onions, garlic, potato onions,
shallots and chives are best sown and planted out in April and May.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Cuttings and division<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now is the perfect time for softwood cuttings of deciduous
plants like grape vines, glory vines and black currants as well as for
rosemary, Chilean guavas and other evergreen edibles. Cut lengths of new grape
vine growth to include 4 buds. Put into a damp, light, potting mix deep enough
for 2 buds to go below the soil and two above. A cheap potting mix with no
added nutrients is best. With rosemary and other evergreens, strip the leaves
off the bottom 2/3 of a cutting and place into potting mix. You can put several
in a pot. Cover with a plastic bag secure with a rubber band. Leave in a
sheltered place and keep just damp, not wet, until spring. Check for root growth
and pot up to grow on further or leave longer. Donât let them get too hot or
dry out.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Broad
beans </span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Bok
Choy</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Mustard
greens esp. frilly</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Minersâ
lettuce</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Corn
salad (mache)</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Shungiku
(edible, Japanese Chrysanthemum)</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Radishes</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Salad
and spring onions</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Coriander<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Chervil</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Stinging
nettles (for teas and pestos all winter)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">English spinach <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Green manure<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Calendula<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Perennial
Leek bulbils including elephant garlic</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Garlic
cloves<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Potato onions<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Seedlings
of Asian veg.</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Flower
bulbs<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><b><i><u><span style="color: #2e74b5; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sow in trays to
plant out:</span></u></i></b><u><span style="color: #2e74b5; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lettuces</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Kales<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Broccoli
raab<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Red
onions<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><b><i><u><span style="color: #2e74b5; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sow to stay in
the hothouse or outside in frost-free areas:</span></u></i></b><u><span style="color: #2e74b5; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sugar
snap peas, podding peas</span></i><span style="color: #5b9bd5; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;">Reading<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<h2 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;">Skills for Growing by
Charles Dowding<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">A fabulous
book for new or experienced gardeners written from a lifetime as a market
gardener in Devon, using a myriad of skills gained while connecting with the
earth.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h2 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;">The Useful Garden<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">While away in
SA I bought a magazine called The Useful Garden, which incorporates all kinds
of other uses for plants. Apart from being a delightful, very informative
read, I just love the quotes dotted through the pagesâŚ<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>I took my
love to the garden that the roses might see her - </i>unknown<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>I will
pick the smooth yarrow that my figure may be sweeter, that my lips may be
warmer, that my voice might be gladder. â </i>Ancient Gaelic incantation for
picking yarrow<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Gardens
are not made by singing âOh, how beautiful,â and sitting in the shade. â </i>Rudyard
Kipling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the seeds that you sow. - </i>Robert Louis Stevenson.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</div></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
weather continues to be mostly dry, with warmer than average day and night time
temperatures for this time of year. But donât be fooled into thinking the
summer growing season will continue much longer! Now that the days are
noticeably shorter, soon there will not be enough sunlight hours to maintain
the warmth in the soil. Did you know that a mulched soil full of active,
healthy microbes will be warmer than a soil fed with fertilisers? Letâs hope
that good autumn rains arrive soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With all the chaos in the world it is easy to fall into
despair. But for me, just being in my garden, working in sunshine or mizzle in
my garden, having coffee under a tree in my garden, chatting to the chooks and
even talking on the phone in the garden, bring some relief from all that is
happening.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Multisowing<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">For many vegetables there are considerable benefits from
sowing two or more seeds together in trays plus you use less potting mix. <span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Basil benefits greatly and
grows much stronger, when multisown. I have noticed this myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Charles Dowding has experimented with multisowing for
decades and in his new book âSkills for Growingâ there is a whole chapter on multisowing
details for various vegetable groups and uses. Here are some examplesâŚ.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">VEGETABLE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">SEEDS TO SOW PER CLUMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DESIRED PLANTS PER CLUMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">SPACING<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">cms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Kale for salad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Kale, larger leaves for cooking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2-3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">30-35<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Radish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4-5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Turnip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3-4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Asian greens for salad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Asian greens for cooking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">25-30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Onions for bulbs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">6-7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4-5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Multisowing is not useful for roots, such as carrots and
swedes or hearting vegetables such as cabbage and lettuce.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Spacing<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">When transplanting tiny seedlings it is easy to plant them
out too close together. Multisown seedlings need wider spacing than single sown
plants but you end up with more plants per square metre. If you are after
larger vegetables, they need more space than smaller. Root vegetables grown too
close together make wonderful leaves but smaller roots. Lettuce grown thickly
makes a rapid harvest of small leaves but subsequent pickings will diminish in
size and quality. Spacing can mean the difference between a beautiful cabbage
and one that just bolts to seed without forming a head.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Donât dismiss paths as wasted space because they allow light
to reach plants as they mature, especially in winter, as well as being another
source of food for the roots of larger plants. I use my paths as mini compost
making strips by laying anything I remove from the beds directly onto the
paths, followed by a sprinkling of blood and bone, if the layer is thick. After
a few days of trampling it down as I walk by, I cover the whole path with
mulchings from my chipper, coarse straw or semi rotted woodchips. Path soil is
living soil.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Heading1Char"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Interplanting</span></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is a way of growing quick vegetables between the big
vegetables so that they are over and done with by the time the bigger veg need
the space. This is a kind of companion planting; a lone broccoli really enjoys
the company of a few radishes as it is filling out its roots. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Planting in blocks is so much more aesthetic than long rows
and makes working with interplanting easier. For example, within 1.5 square
metre blocks you can sow broad beans at 30cms spacing, with some bok choy
seedlings in between. Each broad bean seed eventually grows into 3 â 5 stems
and by that time, the bok choy has been harvested and eaten.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Fungi; the good, the bad and the incredible</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">We
eat them, we curse them and without them we could not exist and neither could
our gardens. Fungi evolved many millions of years before we did and still
occupy almost every cubic metre on earth, from the surface up and down. Every
creature, including ourselves, is full of them and we depend on their health
for our health. Without fungi nothing would decompose, we could not make
compost and our soil would just be dirt, not soil, and be devoid of life. Incredibly,
fungi can turn toxic waste into soil rich in worms and life so imagine what
fungi can do for your vegetable garden!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Autumn
is fungi fruiting time so you will see them popping up after rain, if your soil
is full of life. Rejoice if you have them and let them finish their lifecycle
in your garden as their mycorrhiza are communicating with the roots of all the
other plants, shifting nutrients from here to there, turning any amendments you
add (such as blood and bone, compost, decomposed hay etc) into a liquid state,
for your plants to take up. Healthy soil makes healthy people and neither can
exist without fungi.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Garlic<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Plant
out soft neck varieties such as Tasmanian purple, now, into damp soil but do
not water until you see little green shoots appearing, or you risk them
rotting. These will be ready to harvest before Christmas, when their soft stems
brown off and begin to flop over. If overwatered at this time the water seeps
down into the garlic head and can cause rot or cause them not to store well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Plant
out hard neck varieties later and into May. Later they will produce tall,
curly, green stems called scapes, which are fabulously delicious. I leave some
to grow scapes but most I cut off so more energy goes into growing the bulbs.
These will be ready to harvest in January or even February and have a hard
stem, right down into the garlic head. In a wet spring, these survive better as
they are less prone to rot because of the way they grow tight around the hard
neck. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><br></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Lime
brassica beds, fruit trees and deep hay areas.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Make
compost in 1 cubic meter bays. Cover thickly with hay. Leave for winter.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Take
herb cuttings<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Harvest
seeds such as tomato, lettuce, parsnip.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12.75pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Use
natural lactose fermentation to pickle any hard vegetables such as cucumbers,
carrots, radishes,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and beans<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->For absolutely everything you need to know
about growing garlic in Tasmania visit the website and facebook page
âTasmanian Gourmet Garlicâ.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Follow our Cygnet Garden Markets facebook page
for details on our May 22<sup>nd</sup> Autumn Garden Market</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #244061; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;">Plant out now</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Spring bulbs<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Garlic, shallots, potato onions, salad onions<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Evergreen shrubs and trees<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Strawberries</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">In trays<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Asian greens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Radishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">English spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Chervil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Coriander<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spring onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Winter annual flowers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Direct<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Green manure <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Sweet peas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Sugar snap peas (frost free)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Broad beans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Minersâ Lettuce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hopefully there will be rain soon and all our hard work to
keep things going will slowly transition to caring for cool season crops to
grace our tables through winter. Now in my garden is the time for saving seeds
from tomatoes, sunflowers, parsnips, coriander, Florence fennel, celery,
parsley, chicory and more. March is a busy time in the kitchen, processing
fruit and vegetables for storage before the first frosts arrive. We are so
fortunate to live where we do; safe in the knowledge we can, together, produce
almost everything we need, especially if we save and share our local seeds.
Join the Cygnet Seed Library to be a part of our seed community. Details on the
website and facebook.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Fun with Pumpkins <o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now is the time to consolidate your pumpkin vinesâ energy by
choosing pumpkins that are a good size already and removing the growth beyond
the pumpkins. Those that are flowering or just setting now will take energy
from those that are a good size and need to mature, so removing them is key. And
a liquid feed now will help to keep the well-formed ones growing to maturity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maybe you will grow a huge pumpkin or a quirky one or a
beautiful one and enter it into one of the competitions we are going to run at
the Cygnet Autumn Garden Market at The Cannery on Sunday, May 22<sup>nd</sup>.
We will have more details out soon so follow our facebook page and this column,
but already I can tell you we are having a pumpkin focus, including food and
decorations, along with all the regular stalls, talks and music that everyone
has come to love!<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>The big world of brassicas<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brassicas grow wonderfully in the cold and they are so
healthful for our bodies during winter. There are hundreds of varieties from
all over the world. European brassicas include broccolis, cauliflower,
cabbages, collards, Brussels sprouts and all the kales etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My tips for growing these are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Get good sized seedlings into the ground NOW and
cover them with lace curtains or white shade cloth to keep off the cabbage
moths which are still active. (The moths will disappear when we get a cold
snap.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Plant seedlings into damp soil rich in compost
and lime to get them growing fast before the end of May when day length and low
sun angle bring a halt to further growth if the leaves are too small to provide
enough energy to do more than survive.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Protect with iron based slug and snail pellets.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Asian brassicas can be sown throughout autumn because they
grow so fast that nothing slows them down all winter. These include bok choy,
tatsoi, Chinese cabbage, mustard greens, mizuna, mibuna, kalian, daikon,
hakurei turnips etc. Most parts are eaten; stems, leaves, flower shoots and
some roots. My tips for growing these are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Wet the soil thoroughly. Put your fork into it
and check it is wet down at least 15cms. Keep watering until it is! <o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Spread with well rotted sheep manure or compost
or simply use a bed that had broad beans or other legumes in it previously.
They are less fussy about pH than European brassicas but prefer near neutral. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Rake to a fine tilth. Sow thinly. Asian
vegetable seeds germinate quickly and reliably and will provide a long season
of fabulous food right through late autumn, winter and early spring. Sow every
2 weeks for continuous supply.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->To stop birds disturbing them while they
germinate, cover wire crates (from a tip shop) with lace curtains and place
over the area. I use this system a lot as rain and irrigation go through, white
lets the light through and the lace reduces the wind.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Protect with iron-based slug and snail pellets.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1>Garlic<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">March
is time to prepare the soil for planting out early varieties of garlic in
April. If your soil has set like concrete over summer it will need some well
composted manure (sheep is great), mushroom compost or homemade compost and
plenty of elbow grease! If you have grown potatoes in it previously, that will
have loosened it up somewhat. You donât want to fertilise the soil now, just
condition it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">First,
simply place gypsum at 1/2 kg / square meter over the soil. Then add a good
5cms of the compost / old manure on the bed where you want to grow garlic and
water well. That means using a sprinkler to apply at least 2 cms of water.
Water again after 4 days. After a week or so you may find you are able to dig in
with a fork and incorporate that compost into the top few cms of the soil. Add
more compost and keep working it in, if you can, down to about 10cms.
Otherwise, this will do. There is no need to dig deeper. Keep the soil damp,
not wet, and work on improving the incorporation of the compost all month, if
necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Now
you have loosened the soil and raised your bed above the surrounding ground a
little, you will have better drainage and garlic hates being drowned, as we
discovered in 2021! Next, add a good dusting of garden lime. Rake in. Leave to
rest. Weed regularly. You must be able to stick your finger right into the soil
or your garlic will not be able to grow. Wait until April to plant out the
first garlic. Mid season and late season garlics can be planted in the
following months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seeds to sow
in March<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Plant out now<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Salsify<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Burdock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Tas. swede<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Parsnip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Broad beans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Daikon radish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Asian vegetables<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Coriander, pennyroyal, cress <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b>Seeds to harvest in
March<o:p></o:p></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Beans<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Fennel<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Sunflowers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Calendula<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Coriander<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Nasturtiums<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spring onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Chives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Elephant garlic, potato onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Celery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Jobs for March</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">-Prune
established fruit trees to improve shape and production. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">-Rake up all
fallen fruit to reduce over-wintering of diseases.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">-Take
semi-hardwood and hardwood cuttings of evergreen plants such as rosemary,
sage, lavender, geraniums, correas as well as lemon verbena and anything that
is hardening off and not soft. <o:p></o:p></p>
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</div></p><p class="MsoNormal">Welcome to the southern Tasmanian kitchen garden guide for
2022, where I talk about growing food, all year round. To find all my previous 9
years or so of Kitchen Garden Guides head to my blog called Vegetable Vagabond
and look for the Garden Guides link directly under the header. Itâs a big job
to upload them all there, so it is not finished yet! I want to add relevant
photos and links, which I cannot include in this Classifieds paper version too.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eating by the seasons brings health to mind, body and soul
as well as real purpose to our lives, no matter our age or ability. The next
level kitchen gardener does not attempt to grow everything themselves, but
connects with neighbours, friends, farmers, local market gardeners, roadside
stalls and old-fashioned green grocers to gather what they do not have in their
home garden and to share what they do. Some call this food security, some call
it community sufficiency, I call it common sense! See below for some stalls and
farms and groups to connect with.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Are they fruiting? If not, then maybe you are watering them
too much. Once a week is more than enough for well mulched tomatoes in the
ground. I water them about once a month! By now their roots are way down,
seeking out the rain that drenched our gardens before Christmas. Seriously,
water is great for seedlings, for pots, for greenhouses and small, raised beds
but not for tomatoes in the ground. The microbes in the soil will work wonders
for you but they do not enjoy swimming!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When you are biting or cutting into a delicious, ripe,
magnificent tomato, before you eat it all, STOP! Pick out a few seeds, put them
on a piece of paper towel and write the variety and some notes on it. Leave it
on your kitchen bench and add more seeds of that variety to that same paper
towel, through the season. Do that for each variety of tomato. Later, when all
the pages are fully dry, pack them away, to sow from late July.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Greenhouses and shadehouses<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">During the years of my endless quest to find someone who
will use my salvaged windows and timber to create a greenhouse for me, I have
had to resort to other measures to provide shelter for seedlings etc. I do not
want to grow things out of season; I have more than enough to eat that is in
season, whatever time of the year. I do not want to grow crops in a greenhouse,
I just want to protect trays of seeds and seedlings while they get big enough
to plant outside as well as shelter some precious pot plants from the very
toughest of winter frosts here in Cygnet. There is an excellent, in-depth
article online which thinks through the construction, use and sanity of
greenhouses through cultures, climate and ages. Search for: Reinventing the
Greenhouse. Please, do read broadly and think carefully before constructing
something that you may find you really donât like or use.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You might actually find that a sturdy structure, covered
with a dense, white shadecloth is more versatile. In summer, when the sun is
overhead, this will provide good wind protection and white is an excellent
choice for bright shade. In winter, when the sun is quite low here in southern
Tasmania, if you have it positioned to fully open on the north side, you will
get full sun.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Basil<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oh the joy of having abundant basil growing in your garden
and filling your summer kitchen with its delicious scent! This is a good year
for basil, so far. If you donât have any, get some advanced plants and plant
them out or, do as I did last year, and pot them up into nice, terracotta pots
for ready access at the kitchen door or on a bright kitchen windowsill. In pots
you can keep them going for months by bringing them in when the weather starts
to cool. Basil is wonderful for pesto and in salads and but also goes
remarkably well with strawberries or peaches or in a lemon cake!<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Chooks in summer<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Most of the year my large chook yard under some fruit trees
provides my chooks with all sorts of greenery to pick at, insects to dig up and
clean up, like codling moths. By February, if it has been dry for a while like
this year, thereâs not much except dust for bathing. I grow a lot of chard for
them because it is my chooksâ favourite thing. Yours may prefer other greens!
Whatever it is they like, always keep some growing in your garden or next to
the chook yard fence (so they can peck their own). <o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Natural dyes<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Did you know that many of the plants we grow for food also
can be used as natural dyes? The âNatural Dyes Projectâ was created by Sewing
CafĂŠ, Lancaster,UK, to develop skills and knowledge of natural dying and bring
awareness to the harmful impacts of synthetic dyes. They have a fabulous
website which showcases a garden full of plants that can be used for dying.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>February Events<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Woodbridge WaterFest: Sun.Feb 20<sup>th</sup><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Koonya Garlic Festival: Sat. Feb 26<sup>th</sup> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Seeds to sow in Feb.<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Broccoli raab<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Kale<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Beetroot<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Shungiku<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Asian greens
(late Feb.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Carrots<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Spinach &
silver beet<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Spring onions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Leeks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Hakurei
turnips<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tas. swedes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Parsnips<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Radishes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u>Seeds
to save in Feb<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lettuce<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Shungiku<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Calendular
marigolds<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Parsnips<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Plant out /pot up now, yes now<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Brussel
sprouts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Cauliflower<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Broccoli â
regular, sprouting and raab<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Salad
vegetables<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Leeks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Jobs for February<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Plant, feed
or move citrus<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Summer prune
stone fruits<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Prepare beds
for autumn plantings<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Save seeds
for next spring<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Mulch deeply with
wet straw/silage<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Give
flowering veg a dose of potash<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Protect
brassicas from moths<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u>Roadside
stalls & farms</u></b><u> <o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Ashcraig Farm
stall (Nichols Rivulet Rd) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lennyâs stall
(Jetty Road, Cygnet)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Blueberry
farm (Gospel Hall Rd)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Canes Orchard
(Franklin)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Crop Swap
Cygnet and Surrounds <o:p></o:p></p>
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</div></p><p>Spring has been challenging for our gardens, with a week of
incredible wind in September, followed by a week of snow and ice then
never-ending rain in October and November. Finally, we have sunshine, which may
verge on hot this week! Is it any wonder that some of the seedlings you may
have planted out in October or November are not going well? It is not too late
to replace young plants now. I have been getting beds ready but keeping most
fruiting plants, such as tomatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins, in my mini
greenhouse until now.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>Flowers, seeds and more<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">All the winter vegetables have stopped producing food for us
and are wanting to reproduce themselves now. Brassicas, chard, chicory, winter fennel,
lettuce, asparagus, daikon and more are all sending up flower stalks. These
flowers and old plants either attract beneficial insects directly or they
attract aphids, scale and other so called âpestsâ, which actually are the food
for the emerging beneficial insects. Always leave a few old plants of each
sort, to provide the diversity we need in our gardens so they can maintain the
balance, without us needing to interfere. For example, I tie one or 2 to a
stake, removing some of the bottom leaves, so I can plant new things nearby. I
can honestly say that I rarely have a problem with pests or disease because I
always make sure I have every stage of plant life represented at all times.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Obviously, you can also save some of the mature seeds to sow
next season. Only save seeds if the plants were healthy and produced well for
you first time around! Wait until the seeds are brown on the plant before
picking them. Put the dry pods or whole heads into a paper bag, labelled with
the date, the name of the plant and variety, if you know it, for about a month.
From experience, let me tell you that you will NOT remember it later! After a
month, shake or rub the seeds off or remove them from the pods etc and store in
jars, once again labelled.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>If you would like to learn more about seed saving, come to
the Cygnet Seed Libraryâs âSeed Celebration - an afternoon of seed saving demos
& community funâ, Sunday Dec. 12<sup>th </sup>, in the garden behind
âCuckooâ (17 Mary St., Cygnet). Seed saving demos from 2pm, shared picnic
dinner from 5pm. Details on facebook and our website. All welcome.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<h1>Growing Basil<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unpredictable and tricky until you find what works, basil is
loved by everyone! Here is what I have discovered works for me: I sow in trays
in December, only the large leaf varieties such as Genovese and Lettuce Leaf which
grow fast in our climate and have fabulous flavour. The seeds take a while to
germinate so be patient, keep the soil damp but not wet. Once germinated, water
with a weak seaweed solution until they are big enough to transplant. I put
several plants into each 20cm pot with a rich potting mix and keep them in my
little green house, as they hate the cold. I like to have 6 pots, some sown
early Dec. and some later. They donât mind a bit of shade as long as it is nice
and warm and if you live somewhere consistently warmer than Cygnet they may be
fine outside. Donât overwater and do pick regularly. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>Plant out in the damp soil<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">In early December, sow and plant cucumbers, zucchinis, corn,
sunflowers, salad greens, herbs, flowers and everything you can get your hands
on. After rain is the best time to get plants going. Even though the soil is
still damp, always water your seedlings in. Why? Because every tiny root hair
needs to be in contact with the soil to work its magic and extract nutrients
from the soil. Watering in is the only way to ensure this happens.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><span style="background: white;">Watering</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Tomatoes, corn, other fruiting vegetables and flowering
plants</u> â water the roots deeply only once a week, even if it is hot. <span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">In very general terms, water soaks in
to about 10 times the rainfall. Once your tomatoes reach Christmas time, they
will be down (and out) about 30cms so you need to give them 3cms of water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">That far down, the soil will stay moist enough for a week,
especially if you use a thick, hay mulch. So, I will be giving my tomatoes 3cms
water once a week; not next to the trunk, but out about 30cms, preferably on 2
sides. Shallow, frequent watering, on the other hand, ensures your plants have
a shallow root system, susceptible to the stresses of constant heating and
cooling, and will grow a wonderful canopy of leaves, with little fruit, before
succumbing to some disease.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Hand watering is great for pots, seeds, seedlings and in
times of infrequent watering. It is a pleasant morning or evening past-time but
not the best way to irrigate a whole garden.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Tomatoes do not like wet leaves so they are best served by
what I call finger drippers â more like a cross between a dripper and a spray,
with coarse droplets radiating out like fingers to about 10 -15cms in diameter.
These can easily be seen and have removable caps which can be easy screwed in
or out to adjust the flow. I place one finger dripper between every tomato
plant. (I plant the tomatoes about 1m apart). They are easily plugged into a
run of black poly pipe. I put a click fitting on the end and connect my hose to
this once a week for 1 hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<h2 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;">December Jobs<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<h2 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;">January Jobs<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sow
seeds</span></u></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">: beans,
zucchini, cucumbers, basil, carrots, celery, lettuce, leeks, parsley,
sunflowers, radish, parsnip, pumpkin, chicory. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">SOW WINTER VEG too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sow
seeds: </span></u></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Lots of winter
veg benefit from early summer sowing so they reach a good size to plant out
in autumn: fennel, Brussel sprouts, red cabbage, leeks, kale, beetroot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Plant
out:</span></u></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> corn, tomatoes,
cucumbers, pumpkin, other veg seedlings, potatoes, potted herbs, flowers etc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Basil: keep in greenhouse in good sized
pots with rich soil and water well but allow to drain well before watering
again. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Fill in spaces with flowers, comfrey,
daisies, herbs and love.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dec
and Jan:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mulch
vegetable garden well, preferably with old hay or old silage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mulch
fruit trees well, preferably with bark chips<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Feed
food garden with seaweed solution for pest resistance and fish emulsion or
home made worm brews. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Harvest
and enjoy!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</tbody></table>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140249815996700049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500250914284715491.post-56077233517388828682021-12-20T16:41:00.002+11:002021-12-20T16:41:13.351+11:00November 2021 Kitchen Garden Guide<p> It has been WET, very wet. November is likely to also be
wet, and warm, because La Nina is almost certain. Weather patterns shift and
move around the world so southern Tasmania is influenced by sea temperatures,
ocean currents, volcanoes, earthquakes and climate change, every day and
through every season. Our bodies and minds are too. We are living in and
influenced by all that happens on our planet, near and far.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><u>Little and Often<o:p></o:p></u></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">I listened to a podcast from the Gardeners World magazine,
with Monty Don. Asked âwhat is the secret of successful vegetable gardening?â
he said âLittle and often.â I agree. A few minutes every day is going to help
more than one full day per week. He said many things, another of which was in
answer to the question âHow can I get rid of weeds?â. He said âThe weeds are
not the problem. The problem is youâŚ. The solution is for you to weed a little
bit every day, then the weeds do not become a problem.â Well, I am not sure
about that here in Tasmania, in spring, when the weeds grow faster than a
speeding bullet, but certainly the more often you see to your garden, the
better it will be.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Little and Often also applies to seed sowing. Donât sow a
whole packet of lettuce at once. Sow a few seeds, maybe 6 â 10. When they are
ready to transplant to the garden, on the same day, sow another 6 â 10âŚ.. and
so on. Of course, through the year the varieties will change as some prefer
winter, some summer. Many, many vegetables can be easily grown this way, almost
all year round, so you always have some but never have too many.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Little and Often can also be the motto for compost creation.
Yes, you can gather materials and make cubic meter piles, but you can also or
instead spread the daily weeds onto the path and let them rot away. Here one
day, there the next, every day, for months. Or you can have worm stations
dotted about your garden and feed your daily weeds and veg scraps into one or
another of them. Small is manageable. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Search online for Gardeners World Magazine podcasts and you
will find treasure!<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><u>Late November is beans time (earlier if frost free)<o:p></o:p></u></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Add a handful of potash and a good spadeful of compost per
square metre and fork them in lightly. Water well. Add wet mulch. Sow beans
into the damp soil and water only when the first leaves appear. It is a good
idea to soak the beans overnight before sowing, to hasten germination.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Climbing beans</u>: If you are lucky enough to grow your
own hazelnuts / dogwood / bamboo / suitable willow then you can easily (and for
free) make use of them to erect a frame. (Search Google images for âbean polesâ
and see how creative you can be). But beware!! We live in the roaring 40âs!!
Pole beans WILL blow over unless the structure is secure. I tie one end of my
frame to a sturdy fence post. I especially love flat beans and long, thin,
round, green beans like Lazy Housewife. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Bush beans</u>: These produce bucket loads of fabulous
beans all summer without the need for a frame but therefore take up much more
room. I love the thin, stringless, French beans as well as borlotti beans. It
helps to mulch.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bush beans are great for Tasmania as they produce faster
than pole beans. There are hundreds of varieties to choose from and saving seed
for next year is simply a matter of letting some of the pods mature fully and
dry off before picking.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><u>Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></u></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">My tip is to keep your tomatoes in pots until well after the
Huon Show (13-11-21) if you live in a frosty area. I remember the year that
many people woke to find a hard frost had burnt their entire tomato patch
overnight in mid-November! I donât plant them out until the first week in
December. It is foolproof. I find that potting tomatoes up into slightly bigger
pots at least twice, works really well as advanced plants suffer very little
when planted out into warm soil, unlike the little ones planted out early into
cold, wet soil.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><u>Planting with tomato frames<o:p></o:p></u></h1>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->One 30m roll of wire mesh will make 12 circles.
Each roll is 1200mm high and the mesh is 100mm square. (I bought a 50m roll at
Hollanders in Hobart, to make 20 circles).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Cut the roll into 2.5m lengths and join the ends
to make 10 circles. Each circle will be 750mm across, suitable for 1 tomato
plant. Do not skimp!!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Place all 10 circles, side by side, wherever
your tomatoes will go. This way you can lay it all out and select one bed or
several.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Move one of the circles aside. Plant your
tomato. I push one tall, curly rod (from Shiploads) in the hole with the tomato
but a long bamboo stick would do. In France they are called tomato stakes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Replace the wire circle. Bang a wooden stake
inside the windward side of the circle (or preferably 2, for those unexpected
gales from another direction!) Staple the name tag to the top of one stake.
Move to the next circle and repeat until all 10 tomatoes are planted.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Next, tie all adjacent circles together, to give
strength from the wind. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Water in your tomatoes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Get a coffee and your camera and share your
amazing tomato planting photos!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When your tomatoes finish, use the circles for
all sorts of other things in the garden. I used all mine up last year so had to
go and buy another roll this year! <o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><u>November Event</u><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Cygnet Spring Garden Market</i>: <i>Saturday Nov. 13<sup>th</sup>,
12noon â 4pm @ The Cannery.</i> Fundraiser for the Huon Refugee Support Group
Inc. There will be 23 stalls, live music, gorgeous food and coffee, open bar
and an area for perpetual, 30 minute gardening presentations. Find all the
details on Facebook and Instagram! Covid compliant.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;">Jobs for November<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><u>Sow
indoors to plant out later:</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;">Cucumbers
(Lebanese or Dragonâs Egg), zucchinis (Romanesco), tromboncino, corn,
pumpkins. Almost anything!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;"><u>Sow in
the garden</u>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;">Beans (after
frosts), salad leaves (not just lettuce!), brassicas (cover with moth
netting), most herbs, salad and spring onions, beetroot, fennel, carrots,
celery, parsnip, sunflowers and lots of other flowers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Plant out frost tender seedlings, including tomatoes,
late Nov.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Check your hose fittings, watering cans and irrigation
equipment.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Share excess seedlings with friends.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Most of all, enjoy the garden<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">đ</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Keep grass under control (good luck!) Remember Little
and Often <span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">đ</span><o:p></o:p></li>
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too. All this rain means I have also spent some frustrating days inside,
watching the weeds grow! However, weeds can be your friend too, in several
ways. Looking at a graph of this yearâs September temperatures is enough to
make me seasick! Donât be fooled by any of the weather, there are nearly always
beautiful warm, summery days, driving rain and snow and lots of wind, all the
way up to Christmas!!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>What to do about weeds<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If it is a whole bed that you want to clear,
donât bother pulling the weeds up, just chop them down with a sharp spade then
cover with wet cardboard or newspaper and top with wet mulch. Soil life much
prefers dampness so donât use dry material when you want microbial activity,
which is what will break down the weeds under the newspaper and mulch.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Any weeds, including onion grass, weeds carrying seeds,
couch/twitch â pack densely into a bin. Fill with water. You can also hang a kg
or so of old manure in it in a hessian bag and add some wood ash and comfrey
leaves if you want to. Cover well. Wait 2 weeks or so. Scoop a litre into a
watering can, fill up with water and use as a light liquid feed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If there are no seeds or
runners, feed weeds to your worms, your chooks or lay them on your paths. Even
if your chooks donât eat them, they will scratch them up, turn them over, poo
on them and turn them into compost for you. Worm juice is simply made by
watering the worm farm, collecting the liquid, diluting it to a very weak tea
look and watering the foliage and soil of your plants. One of my worm juice
making devices is a terracotta water filter from the tip shop. It lives in my
little greenhouse. The worms are fed in the top section, with weeds and trimmings
from the hothouse. I water it from time to time and this collects in the
bottom. I use the tap to drain some into a small watering can, dilute it, then
water my seedlings in the hot house. No fuss. No carrying of heavy buckets. The
job takes 2 minutes. A big, worm-farm bath is outside for bigger jobs as are
several worm towers. More about worms next time.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In future, let your vegetables go to seed. Then some of your
weeds will be vegetables that you didnât even have to sow! Good seeds for that
are lettuce, parsnips, chicory, frilly mustard, miners lettuce, corn mache,
parsley, endive.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;">Creating a garden that provides
you with seasonal food, all year round, with (eventually) very little work, is
like growing a family where you spend a lot of time tending and nurturing and
feeding for a couple of years then the jobs change to encouraging and managing
and letting things go a little bit wild. Eventually, if all goes according to
plan, you have created a beautiful base for life to grow on its own. By then you
will have learnt a lot too, allowing the next child / patch of earth to evolve
more easily. My motto is: start where you are, use what you have, do what you
can.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Codling moth<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">The larvae that turn into the codling moths that lay eggs in
our apples overwinter amongst the bark of your trees and the debris near the
base of the trunk. Chooks are the best line of defence as they eat them for you
before the larvae even get to adulthood. If possible, give your chooks free
reign of your fruit trees or design your chook yard to include access to your
fruit trees. My chooks even like to hop up onto the low branches of various of
my fruit trees in winter, when there arenât any leaves.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now is the time to set codling moth traps for apples, pears
and nashis to catch the adult moths before they lay eggs in your fruit. You can
buy sticky, pheromone traps that lure the males in, then they get stuck to the
sides and canât escape. The girls get to remain free but unfertilised so do not
produce fertile eggs (like chooks without a rooster).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My mother had a different way which almost totally removed
codling moths from her garden in a few years. She lured the males with port.
She hung one or 2 empty tins (tinned tomatoes, for example) in each apple and
pear tree, by drilling holes and threading string through the tins so they
could be hooked over branches that she could reach. Into each tin went a good
dash of port and the same amount of water. Codling moth males (and many human
males!) love port and died every night in those tins. After a few days she
would sieve or scoop out the moths, top up the port and re-set the tins into
the trees. There are usually 2 hatchings of codling moth eggs, one in mid
spring and another in late spring or early summer, so the clever little things
can get to the early and late flowering trees! So, donât give up too early and
the moths are not fussy, so get the cheapest port you can find!<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1>Local Events <o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Cygnet Seed Library</u> â at Oura Oura House, Cygnet:
fortnightly, Sunday afternoon pack n chat sessions and monthly gardening workshops.
See our website and facebook page for dates, details and fact sheets.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Cygnet Spring Garden Market</u> â at The Cannery, 12 â
4pm Sat. Nov. 13<sup>th</sup>: All things gardening! Stalls, 30 minute
presentations, food, coffee, open bar and live music. See our facebook page and
local flyers for details.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">For transplanting later, especially in frost prone areas<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any
vegetable that fruits or has edible seeds:</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">
(Tomatoes â a bit late), zucchinis, corn, melons, pumpkins, cucumbers, capsicums,
eggplants <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">In fact sow almost anything you have seeds of including
flowers and herbs galore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Leaves,
legumes and roots<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lettuce and other salad greens, beetroot, parsnips,
carrots, peas, radish, celery, summer spinach and brassicasâŚ.. and of course
lots of herbs; all of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Tip: </span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If
you have grass problems in your beds, sow everything in trays.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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this year, with the frequent, unusually mild nights causing early bud burst and
the suggestion that spring is here. But, as we all know, cold, wet and windy
weather can still prevail, on and off, until Christmas. Keep your tomato,
pumpkin, cucumber etc seedlings under cover until much later in the year!</p>
<h1>Coppicing <o:p></o:p></h1>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Hazelnuts can be
pruned and turned into a thicket edge. The long prunings are traditionally used
for fence weaving and many garden structures. Check out Monty Don online. Here
is an excerpt from his bookâŚ.â</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To coppice a shrub or tree means
regularly cutting it right to the ground. Almost all deciduous trees will take
this treatment and regrow perfectly healthily for hundreds, even thousands, of
years without any ill effect. Indeed, coppicing a tree is a way of making it
live up to twice as long. This provides a harvest of wood for beansticks,
thatching spars, fencing posts, firewood, charcoal and, historically at least,
a hundred other uses, as well as stimulating the plant to regrow
vigorously. The secret is regular dramatic pruning. It looks brutal, but
is the key to survival for all these plants. By cutting the understorey to
the ground regularly (I cut my hazel every seven years) you not only let in a
great flood of light, but also create a very sophisticated, evolving habitat
with diminishing light and increasing growth between each cut.â<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h1>War and seeds<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Have you ever thought about what happens to the heirloom
seeds saved for generations by traditional farmers when they become caught in
war zones and their crops destroyed or abandoned? The rich diversity of crops
can sometimes be lost forever and a community devastated by fighting may never
regain the foods that had graced the tables of the community for thousands of
years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Throughout history there have been many passionate seed
collectors who have braved war zones to save seeds. One such was a man who was
collecting from farmers in Russia when World War ll caught up with him.
Nickolay Vavilov was the world's greatest plant explorer. He collected more
seeds, tubers and fruits from around the world than any person in human
history. He started out collecting seeds in about 1916 and worked up until his
arrest in the early 1940s and imprisonment by Stalin where he died of
starvation.<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span>The
man who taught us the most about where our food comes from and who tried for
over 50 years to end famine in the world died of starvation as a prisoner of
war.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There was a seed bank down in the basement of an old Russian
building that had not only Vavilov's 220,000 seeds, but another 150,000 from
other collectors. During the Siege of St. Petersburg in 1941, the staff locked
themselves in the building. They didn't know where Vavilov, their leader, was,
but they were so dedicated to the mission to collect and conserve the world's
food diversity that they locked themselves in to protect the seeds both from
the Nazis and from starving people in their own streets who wanted to find
grain or potatoes of any kind and eat them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Over a series of months in 1942 and 1943, a dozen of the
scientists starved to death while guarding those seeds. One of them said it was
hard to wake up, it was hard to get on your feet and put on your clothes in the
morning, but no, it was not hard to protect the seeds once you had your wits
about you. Saving those seeds for future generations and helping the world
recover after war was more important than a single person's comfort. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Seeds for our foods are our life-line and without their
biodiversity there is not the gene pool to adapt to climate change. That is one
really good reason for allowing self-sown abundance in our home gardens. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><u>Raising the seeds of your summer harvest<o:p></o:p></u></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Raising
seeds is easy. All the know-how is in the seed. Turning those new seedlings
into strong, healthy plants ready to plant out into your garden can be the
hardest part of vegetable gardening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This
time of the year, when you have tiny tomato seedlings and you are waiting until
November for the frosts to finish; there are some important tips to success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pot them up gradually, not from seedling tray
to large pot in one go. Make them use up the soil they are in. This will ensure
you get early flowers and not just masses of leaves. When the roots start
coming out the bottom, it is time to pot them up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Do not rely only on bought potting mix. I buy
cheap potting mix and mix in ½ to 1/3 of home-made compost, plus a dash of
blood and bone. I also water the young seedlings with a seaweed tonic from time
to time. In France I learned about stinging nettle tea as a tonic and use this
now too, whenever any plants looks a bit off colour. Stinging nettles are a
fabulous tool in the garden (and the kitchen!), being packed full of silicon
which strengthens cell walls and helps to reduce pest and disease attack on plants
and inside you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To keep growth happening through September,
while the nights are often still very cold, supply tomato seedlings with
warmth. Even a little will help, especially at night. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Provide bright light during the day. Weak
seedlings often result from not enough hours of strong sunlight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In a sheltered spot, on warm days, put them
outside. A perpetually sheltered environment (such as a hot house) is a
sure-fire way of producing weak plants. Seedlings need a bit of breeze to
strengthen the stems as they grow, but not a gale from the Roaring 40âs!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Capsicums, chillies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Carrots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Corn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Parsnips<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Asparagus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Broad beans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Leeks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Kales, especially Squire and Blue Curled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Peas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Herbs (NOT basil yet!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Brassicas (if you are prepared with netting to keep the
cabbage moths off)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Spring onions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Beetroot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Tomatillos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Turnips<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Eggplant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Swedes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lettuce + other salad greens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Radishes including daikon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Still a bit early for cucumbers and pumpkins if you have
late frosts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Prepare some water tubs for water greens and water
chestnuts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Chit
or Plant out<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Divide
and plant out<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Potatoes (leave to chit or sprout if frosty where you
live. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Plant out later)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Globe artichokes <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rhubarb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sunchokes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</tbody></table>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140249815996700049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500250914284715491.post-17721520567820334792021-12-20T16:16:00.001+11:002021-12-20T16:16:34.202+11:00August 2021 Kitchen Garden Guide<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTnZVpNOp6sWIBIKw-7ziLRfpdn7x3o3nZrC94hzMqhk5TRbfqKzMgPPBR289w4nTg9D0wIn_CBZ6yJrMo--JqzSA-coxvUEnyNXknfQOnn64Y2piR_jd9P2e4MOddlCR7xRkXAMHbyDs6X4MoRDli46OnN3wJHzN-cokq7EypBxhxHPXgaX-rCDK9=s3840" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTnZVpNOp6sWIBIKw-7ziLRfpdn7x3o3nZrC94hzMqhk5TRbfqKzMgPPBR289w4nTg9D0wIn_CBZ6yJrMo--JqzSA-coxvUEnyNXknfQOnn64Y2piR_jd9P2e4MOddlCR7xRkXAMHbyDs6X4MoRDli46OnN3wJHzN-cokq7EypBxhxHPXgaX-rCDK9=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />It is hard to imagine a more weather-diverse July; 5 frosts
in a row and my pond frozen for 3 days straight, followed by t-shirt days and
balmy nights. All this will affect our gardens in August in ways that we have
to tune into, to notice.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><br /></h1><div><br /></div><h1>Curly Leaf<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto;">It is time to see that
the early fungus that causes leaf curl on peaches, nectarines and related fruit
trees does not get a hold, by spraying every nook and cranny of every branch,
stem and bud with a copper spray. Peter Cundall recommends Burgundy mix, which
you can make yourself, because it does not clog up the spray nozzle, like
Bordeaux can. It is also beneficial to spray a<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">pples which had scab last year and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">raspberry canes which had leaf rust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Burgundy Mixture:</u><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">1. Dissolve
50 gram of washing soda (from supermarket) in 2.5 litres of warm water.</span> <br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">2. Dissolve
50 grams copper sulphate in a separate 2.5 litres of water.</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">3. Slowly
pour the dissolved washing soda into the dissolved copper sulphate.</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">4. This is
Burgundy mixture. It is at its most effective strength when freshly mixed so
must be used immediately or within a couple of days.</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">5. Spray
thoroughly over the bare branches of peach, nectarine and other
stone fruit trees to help control leaf curl and brown rot disease. It is also
useful when sprayed over raspberry canes in late July/early August for control
of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">raspberry<b> </b></span>rust
and on apple trees that had scab last year.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The mixture
colours the sprayed plants blue. The spray can withstand light rain but should
be re-applied after persistent rain and done at least twice before any buds
open. Do not spray once the leaves and flowers open.</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h1>Espalier<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bare rooted fruit trees can be planted now. Do consider if
you really want full sized fruit trees or if, like me, you would prefer more,
smaller trees, providing fruit over a longer period.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is great to use vertical space for food production and it
is easy to trim fruit trees flat against a frame or fence. It also makes them
easy to protect from wildlife when they are fruiting as they are a much more
manageable size for netting etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I just dig a hole, work in some compost then make a small
mound in the bottom of the hole for the roots to sit on. I put the tree in the
hole, stand back and look at its shape in relation to my desire for it to end
up being flat against the fence, turn it so it looks good, then fill in the
hole and water in thoroughly. Make sure the graft is well above the soil.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Next, I prune off anything that is sticking outwards away
from the fence. Then I cut a few pieces from a ball of the stretchy fabric type
of twine and start tying the remaining branches back horizontal or slightly
upwards, to the fence. At this point some of the twiggy branches or those
getting in the way of others, can be removed. Then, all year round, I simply
prune off anything growing outwards and anything growing over the top of other
branches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it is a single stalk, I
prune off to a bud that is facing the right way to grow along the fence. If you
want to learn about how to espalier almost anything, you can attend one of the
Cygnet Espalier Workshops put on by Nik Magnus. Check out the dates and book on
the Woodbridge Fruit Trees website.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Oxalic Acid<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMMO8AJMpr4woLiAZ6QPMG-bFqfrN81FeBfEw_Lxl3Pu4kR-Z8z_5JYu8K1k6Lh3c9BTaIL2k-dE3hgDCuxwVNgkTJlgeDxQLeg0PJvxIt_cmmRqkSqy7ctx3FUhM6ynvXga-cXnowl_ocHtTMKXpLxGzm9tvcJR22imKFG5CBEif5wAlpThH9kv7Z=s3840" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="2160" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMMO8AJMpr4woLiAZ6QPMG-bFqfrN81FeBfEw_Lxl3Pu4kR-Z8z_5JYu8K1k6Lh3c9BTaIL2k-dE3hgDCuxwVNgkTJlgeDxQLeg0PJvxIt_cmmRqkSqy7ctx3FUhM6ynvXga-cXnowl_ocHtTMKXpLxGzm9tvcJR22imKFG5CBEif5wAlpThH9kv7Z=s320" width="180" /></a></div>Some leafy vegetables have large amounts of oxalic acid in
them, rhubarb being the highest concentration and everyone knows not to eat
rhubarb leaves. Next comes spinach and anything related to beets; silver beet,
rainbow chard (which is multi-coloured silver beet) and beetroot, for example.
My mother always told me that these need to be cooked in lots of boiling water
and drained well. If I want some greens to put in soup or to stir fry etc, I
use leaves with the least oxalic acid, from the table below. I eat a lot of
greens, many raw, so I like to vary what I eat and choose according to how I am
going to prepare them. <o:p></o:p><p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Raw Vegetable<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Approx. oxalate content milligrams per 100 gram <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Spinach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">750<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Beet greens
(silver, rainbow)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">610<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Parsley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">100<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Broccoli<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Cabbage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">35<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Kale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Bok choy, mustard
greens, endive <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1>Water and Frost<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you have land but no garden yet, winter will show you how
your land handles rain and frost. Are there boggy areas that are constantly
wet? Are there patches that remarkably stay bone dry (like under large trees)?
Perhaps you have a slope that turns into a sheet of running water or a creek
that becomes eroded or overflows? Does the frost affect some patches more than
others? Take notes, draw a rough map and mark out distinct zones with sticks
because you will forget!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One way to modify the land is to make your garden
interesting with cleverly designed mounds and shaped low areas that lead excess
water to a pond or already existing creek. My garden has such a design,
directing water around the garden in shallow, grassy depressions which end up
either in my pond or in the creek. There are paths crossing the dips, with
small âbridgesâ which keep a walkerâs feet dry, which are anything from a few,
short planks embedded into both sides to a metal grate or some nice rocks.
These features make land into garden and plants can be selected for their
habitat requirements where the soil is often damp. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is Tasmania so make use of our climate and our diverse
native Tasmanian plants, many of which are edible and which will result in
frogs, insects and our gorgeous, tiny, native birds and small mammals
inhabiting parts of your garden. Make frost your friend!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1;">Plant and sow in August</h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Plant rhubarb, strawberry runners,
raspberry canes, asparagus and get all deciduous trees and shrubs in before
they leaf.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><u>Start sowing summer vegetables with bottom
heat:</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Tomatoes<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Capsicums<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Chillis<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->EggplantsâŚ. Good luck!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">And while you
are waiting for them to mature, why not grow some sprouts in the kitchen for
a nutritious and delicious treat for your taste buds and bodyâŚ. lentils,
chickpeas, fenugreek, buckwheat</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u>Sow now in
trays to plant out later:</u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Onions including red, salad, spring and most
others<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Broad beans (it is not too late)<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Coriander<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Brassicas<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Asian greens<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">¡<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Lettuces<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Peas and to eat as pea shoot microgreens<o:p></o:p></p>
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