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September Growers Guide

Blossoms are opening and the birds are singing loudly.

It is time to start sowing seeds if you have not and begin planting out.

Prepare your irrigation systems and check all your hose fittings.

Rose Blossom

Flowers (seeds)

African Daisy
A
gastache

Aster 

Bergamot

Borage

Butterfly Bush

Catmint
Catnip

California Poppy

Carnation

Cornflowers
Cosmos

Delphinium

Dianthus

Heartsease

Impatiens

Larkspur

Lawn Chamomile

Lillies

Marigolds

Nasturtium
Petunia
Pincushion

Poppy

Salvias

Statice

Sunflower

Sweetpeas

Verbana

Zinnia

Organic Carrots

Vegetables (seeds)

Artichoke

Asparagus crowns
Basil
Beans

Beetroot

Carrot

Celery

Chickpeas

Chillies

Coriander

Cucumber

Fennel

Horseradish

Jerusalem Artichoke

Kale

Lettuce

Mint

Oregano

Parsnip

Parsley

Peas

Pumpkin

Radish

Rocket
Silverbeet

Spinach

Spring Onion

Squash

Sweet corn

Tamarillo

Tomato

Turnip

Watermelon
Zucchini
 

Tips for growing tomatoes

Basket of Apples

Fruits

Domestic Waste Bin

Soil, Compost & General

  • Prepare tomato beds with compost, chook poo and mulch

  • Add organic matter to your soil

  • Check your worm farms are in working order OR

  • Start your own worm farm

  • If you have a warm location, you can get your tomato seeds potted now for a head start on the season

  • Sow a green manure crop like millet, amaranth, mung bean

gardening tools

Tools & Equipment

Homemade Pesto

Seed Saving & Harvesting

Harvesting

Snow Peas, beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, coriander, fennel, carrot, sweet potato, leek, silverbeet, citrus fruit as it ripens, lettuce, spring onions, rhubarb, mustards, spinach, kale, new potatoes, asparagus

Seed saving

Any remaining vegetable seed which has dried from the previous season

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

Chilli seed

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