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Gardening Calendar: our monthly to-do list
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January

Vegie Gardens:

- sow Asian brassica, beetroot, green sprouting broccoli, Brussels sprouts, savoy cabbages, red cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce & Asian greens, mustard, spring onions, radishes, silverbeet and swede; feed beds lightly with complete organic fertilizer, horse manure or composted hay from chook-pens before sowing and planting 
- harvest: Asian brassica, broad beans bush beans, climbing beans, purple sprouting broccoli, small savoy cabbages, small red cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, kale, kohlrabi, brown onions, salad onions, potato onions, spring onions, peas, potatoes, radish, lettuce & Asian greens, mustard, silverbeet, spinach, squash, swede, sweetcorn, zucchini


Orchards:

- continue to hand-thin apples and pears
- deep-water once a week
- pick berries, cherries
- start picking 
     apples: Beauty of Bath, Irish Peach, White Transparent
     plums: Victoria
     apricots 
- feed all trees lightly with horse manure and composted hay from chook-pens
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check for pear and cherry slugs, spray with Success, if necessary
- continue
summer-pruning fruit trees


General:
- cut grass
- weed around all plants
- prune natives after flowering
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