Your garden: May 13
As winter comes closer, the opportunities for growing vegetables are reduced, but garlic and shallots should go in from now until early spring.
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Your garden: May 6
Your garden: May 6
Lettuces are thought of as a summer vegetable, but the seed of some hardy types, such as the old French variety Merveille des Quatre Saisons, can be sown under cloches or under glass to make slow growth until longer days and more sunshine return.
Your garden: April 29
Your garden: April 29
This is a good time to look at starting a herb patch or rejuvenating an existing one.
Your garden: April 22
Your garden: April 22
Traditionally, broad beans are sown from March until mid-May, to stand through the winter and bear crops in early summer.
Your garden: April 8
Your garden: April 8
Think ahead to next spring and improve the quality of heavy, clay-based soil by digging it roughly, so different levels are exposed to winter frosts, winds, rain and sun.
Your garden: April 1
Your garden: April 1
Depending on their position and soil types, not all gardens can be cultivated intensively from now on.
Your garden: March 25
Your garden: March 25
Cabbage, cauliflower and silverbeet can still be planted to stand the winter.
Your garden: March 18
Your garden: March 18
Parsley may still be sown in warmer districts. Sow thinly and, when seedlings are strong enough, move so they are 10cm apart.
Your garden: March 11
Your garden: March 11
Cabbage, cauliflower and silverbeet stalks should be cleared from the ground once plants have been harvested.
Your garden: March 4
Your garden: March 4
Vegetables
Your garden: February 25
Your garden: February 25
Potato crops can be harvested before the tops have died right away from the plants.
Your garden: February 18
Your garden: February 18
Brassicas planted in late December or during January will need protection from white butterfly caterpillars and grey aphids.
Your garden: February 11
Your garden: February 11
Garden maintenance is very important at this time of the year.
Your garden: February 4
Your garden: February 4
Onion seed sown this month will withstand the winter months, then mature into good-sized bulbs for harvesting next summer.
Your garden: January 28
Your garden: January 28
There is a good case for mixing vegetables with flowers to get the best production from gardens, especially those that lose the sun early. This is particularly true for south-facing properties or gardens overshadowed by high trees.
Your garden: January 21
Your garden: January 21
In all but the coolest areas, radishes sown now will not thrive, tending to bolt to seed, even when the soil is kept moist, and those that do mature will be unacceptably sharp in flavour.
Your garden: January 14
Your garden: January 14
Keeping the soil hoed not only keeps down weed seedlings but also gives vegetables an effective mulch of broken soil that prevents loss of moisture lower down in the ground.
Your garden: December 17
Your garden: December 17
At this busy time of year, routine maintenance in the garden can be bottom of the list.
Your garden: December 10
Your garden: December 10
Cabbage, cauliflower, carrot and turnip crops will be maturing in the garden in the next two to three months.
Your garden: November 26
Your garden: November 26
What's happening in your garden this week?