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December Grower's Guide

The stone fruit are being picked in bucketfuls now. The pumpkins and squashes are filling out and covering the ground like lily pads and their flowers in a pond.

Kitchens are busy with cooking and preserving and thoughts about which variety of broccoli to plant this coming season begin to pop into one's mind.

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Flowers (seeds)

Alysum

Aster 
Baby's Breath

Bergamot
Billy Buttons

Borage

Calendula

California Poppy

Carnation

Chrysanthemum

Comfrey

Cornflowers
Cosmos

Dahlia

Delphinium

Dianthus

Echinacea

Everlasting Daisy

Feverfew

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Forget me not

Gladioli bulbs

German Chamomile

Hyssop

Impatiens

Larkspur

Lavender

Marigolds

Nasturtium
Petunia

Phlox
Pincushion

Poppy

Salvias

Snapdragon

Sunflower

Sweet William

Verbana

Yarrow

Zinnia

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Vegetables (seeds)

Adzuki beans

Amaranth
Artic
hoke

Asparagus crowns
Basil
Beans

Beetroot
Bitter melon

Burdock
Capsicum

Carob

Carrot

Celery

Chervil

Chickory

Chillies

Chives

Chinese broccoli

Corn

Cucumber

Dill

Eggplant

Endive

Fennel

Garlic chives

Gourd

Kale

Leek

Lemon balm

Lettuce
Luffa

Malabar Spinach

Mizuna

Mustards

Okra

Oregano

Parsley

Peppermint

Perilla

Potatoes

Pumpkin

Purslane

Rocket

Rhubarb

Rockmelon

Rosella

Rosemary

Sage

Salsify
Silverbeet

Sorrel

Spearmint

Spinach

Spring Onion

Squash

Sweet potato

Tamarillo

Tarragon

Thyme

Tomato

Tulsi - Holy Basil

Turnip

Watercress

Watermelon
Zucchini
 

Tips for growing tomatoes

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Add some calcium to your soil if you experienced blossom end rot last year

Fresh Plums

Fruits

Domestic Waste Bin

Soil, Compost & General

  • Time to do lots of weeding, if that is your thing

  • Actively check for snails and other pests

  • Actively check for bronze orange bugs in citrus trees 

  • Mulch, mulch, mulch

  • Cover your worm farm with a wet hessian blanket to keep them happy in the heat OR

  • Start your own worm farm

  • Transplant evergreen shrubs

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gardening tools

Tools & Equipment

  • Check and maintain your fruit fly traps

  • Clean and sharpen secateurs and saws for fruit tree pruning

  • Ensure your irrigation systems are set for the holiday season

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Vegemite Snail Trap: Add a tablespoon of vegemite to an empty jar, fill with water, mix and bury to the rim of the jar. Check and replace as required.

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Waterproof Slug Trap: add one cup water, one teaspoon sugar, one teaspoon flour and half a teaspoon of yeast into a plastic container with lid and watch here for more details.

Homemade Pesto

Seed Saving & Harvesting

Harvesting

beans, berries, lettuce, silverbeet, apples, stone fruit and citrus fruit as they ripen, spring onions, rhubarb, mustards, spinach, asparagus, squashes, tomatoes, herbs

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Seed saving

Peas and snow peas, rocket, radishes, broccoli, silverbeet, coriander

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Seed from apples, pears, quinces (store in damp sand)

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Check out our seed saving page for more information.

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