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Friday, May 22, 2009

March in your garden

This is an important month for planting the winter vegetable garden. Prepare the patches with compost, and fertilizer. Plant your seedlings e.g. beetroot, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, spinach and silverbeet, and protect from slugs and snails.

Watch out for pests such as the white butterfly and white fly.

Plant fallow areas of the vegetable garden with a green manure cover crop. This can be dug in to enrich the soil before planting again in spring.

Plant flowering annual seedlings and encourage earlier and better flowers by feeding. Cutback, lift and divide overgrown perennials. Feed roses and check for fungus and pests. Feed ornamental trees and shrubs.

Harvest Potatoes, early kumara, beetroot, beans, radishes, turnips.

Planting
Warmer areas: cauliflower, corn, (and the following if not subjected to constant frosts) broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, carrots, parsely

Cooler areas: swede, turnip, (and the following if not subjected to constant frosts) broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, carrots, parsely

For more of what to plant in your climatic zone, click here

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by doris 11 Aug 11, 5 replies : Last Post

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doris 1 posts	carrots and beetroot Posted 11 Aug 11 2:38 PM every year I plant y seeds for carrots and beetroot, I have very poor crops. every thing else I grow is good but not these. Can anyone help me with this.

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Orchidmaniac 53 posts	Re: carrots and beetroot Posted 27 Oct 11 8:11 PM How do you prepare the soil for them? They like to have fairly free draining soil, so maybe next year, dig a bit of sand into it. Also, try digging down about 20/30cm, and make it nice and friable. Good luck!

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sustainablebackyard 1 posts	Re: carrots and beetroot Posted 13 Jan 12 4:09 PM I sow carrots into a depressed rows, but as they need light to germinate, I dont cover them with soil, rather lightly water them.

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Jane 10 posts	Re: carrots and beetroot Posted 14 Jan 12 10:37 AM Hi Doris, When you say poor crop......do you mean poor in terms of germination rate or size of roots?

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Anonymous 177 posts	Re: carrots and beetroot Posted 22 Jan 12 2:41 PM I didn't know they need light to germinate?? I sow carrots and radish together in the same row and get good results from both. The radish mature earlier and by harvesting them, they leave plenty of room for the carrots. I still have to thin the carrots.

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Orchidmaniac 53 posts	Re: carrots and beetroot Posted 23 Jan 12 4:06 PM I havnt had any trouble either. I have never heard of carrots needing light to germinate in all the years i have been gardening. Although, most packs recommend a sowing depth of around 6-7mm

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