Here is what we are sowing and transplanting now that our days have over 10 hours of sunlight. We rely on cold thriving quick maturing vegetables to get us through the gap between Winter and Spring “side dish” crops.
And there are many flowers which are cold hardy and thrive in the cool Spring weather. These can be sown/transplanted now to produce great early blooms.
Read MoreShirley and Breadseed poppies are two of the easiest flowers to grow – provided your timing is correct. Autumn sowings provide larger, earlier blooms on strong, prolific plants. Beloved by bees with stunning colours and tissue paper like petals, poppies fill the gap between spring bulbs and warm weather flowers.
Read MoreLarkspur are one of our favorite late spring/early summer spires. They are fantastic cut flowers with a long stem length and lasting for two weeks in a vase. We love them arranged by themselves or in combination pale foliage and lime green flowers, roses, peonies, bells of Ireland, poppies, celosia, zinnias. With an array of colours, they are quintessential cottage garden flowers and much sought after by floral designers.
Read MoreLettuce, in our southern Victorian, cold, wet, frosty July, can turn to mush. In the 2020 - 2021 growing season, we trialed our entire lettuce collection, experimenting with seasonal sowing windows and protected and not protected positions. There was a clear winter winner.
Read MoreAs 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 MoreDecember! Victorian’s declare the beginning of Summer on 1 December. With Summer Solstice on 21 December, we have entered ten weeks of long days and expanded sunrise and sunsets!
Succession planting of robust biodynamic and organic seeds is needed now to keep you harvesting your summer favorites. We have outlined our sowing and growing plan for December below.
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