Organic Gardening

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Planting Guide

Did you know that farmers spray the tops of potatoes with Roundup a week before they harvest their potato crops for the markets.

'WARNING'
Every Planting Guide is different, what may suit you, may not suit your gardening friends, 2 k's down the road, they may live in an area that has a early or late frost.
So as I see it, the best way to go is start planting out, is after the last frost when the soil starts to warm up.
Early spring you could start off planting out Brassica, Onions, Parsnips, Lettuce, Rhubarb. Mid spring Peas, Beans, Beetroot, Turnips. Late spring Tomatoes, Eggplant, Capsicum, Chilli, Carrots, Leeks, Celery, Shallots, Silverbeet, Spinach and Herbs. Early summer plant out Cucumber, Radish, Zucchinis.
Mid summer plant out Corn, Melons and Pumpkin/Squash.
To be a jump ahead of your fellow gardeners you could start of growing your seedlings in punnets.
If any one would like to contribute to this planting guide, so we can bring it up to scratch, it would be appreciated.

Planting Guide

Plant Type
Cold Areas 
Act, Melb, Tas & Inland
Mild Areas
Perth, Sydney, Adelaide
Sub Tropics
Coffs Habour to Rockhampton
Tropics
Broad Beans Mar-Aug April-July Mar-Jun needs a cool climate
Bush Beans Oct-Jan Sept-Feb Mar-Sept All Year
Climbing Beans Oct-Dec Sept-Feb Mar-Sept All Year
Beetroot Sept-Feb July-Mar Mar-Sept Mar-Sept
Broccoli All Year Jun-March Apr-Sept Mar-Jun
Brussel Sprouts
(needs a frost)
Oct-Feb Dec-March Mar-Aug (needs frost) (needs frost)
Cabbage July-Mar All Year April-Sept Mar-Jun
Capsicum Sept-Nov Aug-Dec All Year All Year
Carrots Sept-Feb All Year All Year All Year
Cauliflower All Year Dec-Feb Apr-Sept Mar-Jun
Celery Aug-Dec Aug-Dec Mar-Oct Mar-Sept
Chillis Sept-Nov Aug-Dec All Year All Year
Corn Oct-Jan Sept-Feb Sept-Nov All Year
Cucumber Oct-Dec Sept-Jan Sept-Dec Sept-Feb
Eggplant Sept-Nov Jul-Dec All Year All Year
Kohl Rabi Mar-Sept Aug-May Mar-Aug Mar-Sept
Leek Sept-Mar Aug-Apr All Year March-Sept
Lettuce All Year All Year All Year All Year
Onions Mar-Sept Feb-Aug Mar-Jul Mar-Jul
Parsley Oct-Apr Sept-May All Year Apr-Sept
Parsnip Aug-Feb Jul-Mar Mar-Jun needs a cool climate
Potatoes Sep-Jan All Year Mar-Sept Mar-Sept
Peas Jan-Oct Feb-Aug Mar-Jun Mar-Jul
Pumpkin Oct-Dec Sept-Dec Sept-Dec All Year
Radish Oct-Feb All Year All Year All Year
Rhubard All Year All Year Mar-Sept well worth a try
Rockmelon Oct-Dec Aug-Dec Sept-Dec Sept-Dec
Shallots Feb-Oct Feb-Sept All Year All Year
Silverbeet Aug-Feb Sept-May Mar-Sept Mar-July
Spinach (bush) Aug-Feb Feb-Oct Mar-Sept Mar-July
Spinach (climbing) Aug-Feb Aug-Jan Mar-Sept Mar-July
Squash Sep-Feb Sept-Jan Sept-Dec Feb-Sept
Swede All Year Jan-Apr Mar-Sept Mar-Sept
Tomatoes Sept-Dec  Aug-Dec All Year Mar-Dec
Turnip All Year Jan-Apr April-Sept Mar-Sept
Watermelon Oct-Dec Aug-Dec Sept-Dec All Year
Zucchini Oct-Dec Aug-Dec Sept-Dec Apr-Sept

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