As school zone lights blink again, think of them as a reminder to sow your Autumn/ Winter garden. A small amount of time sowing seeds in the next two weeks can produce a diversity of nutrient dense, tasty vegetables throughout mid Autumn and Winter. In addition, if you have room in your cut flower garden and want to push your bouquet harvest into April and May, it is not too late!
Read MoreOne of the greatest keys to continuous harvest is thinking one season ahead! Our quest for autumn brassicas finds us sowing those seeds now. We also continue our successive planting plan, including sowing our third and last planting of the season of zucchini and cucumbers.
Read MoreWhen summer is hot, the perfect accompaniment to any meal is a juicy succulent salad. Lettuce loves the coolness of Spring and Autumn so here in Southern Victoria, the long days and sometimes high temperatures of Summer can make head lettuce production a challenge.
Here are four steps to help you negotiate the trickiest months and keep you crunching on salads all through Summer!
Read MoreHere in Southern Victoria, November is the month for warm season crop transplanting! Tomatoes, zucchini, capsicums, cucumbers have all been waiting for the night time temperatures to warm.
And as the weather really warms up, we sow beans, corn, pumpkins and more…
Read MoreOctober is the month that finds us questioning- should we transplant NOW?
We base our transplant date on nighttime temperatures. Many of the cold sensitive crops such as tomatoes, basil, eggplant, capsicum, zucchini can be permentantly set back if transplanted too early. We mitigate this risk by using row covers and poly tunnels.
We have made a simple temperature chart to assist.
Read MoreHere are the crops we are sowing in September. This is a very busy month in our glasshouse and our fields as we watch seeds transform into roots and shoots and incorporate our green manure crops, apply prepared biodynamic 500 to encourage the dynamic humus building and transplant crops!
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