- control slugs and snails by squashing them at night
- use Dipel on brassica against cabbage white fly, if necessary
- sow bush beans (end of month), climbing beans, beetroot, green sprouting broccoli, small savoy cabbages, small red cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, celery, kohlrabi, leek, lettuce & Asian greens, mustard, salad onions, spring onions, peas, radishes, silverbeet, spinach and swede; plant potatoes; plant out celery, spinach, cucumber, pumpkin, squash, sweetcorn, tomatoes and zucchini from greenhouse; feed beds lightly with complete organic fertilizer, horse manure or composted hay from chook-pens before sowing and planting (no lime in tomato beds)
- harvest: green sprouting broccoli, Sugarloaf cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, celery, kale, leek, salad onions, spring onions, radish, lettuces & Asian greens, mustard, silverbeet, spinach

- continue mulching under fruit trees and berries (berries with a mixture of manure and pine needles)
- end October: feed all trees and shrubs lightly with horse manure and composted hay from chook-pens 

- cut grass
- weed around all plants
- divide bulbs

Poultry & eggs for sale