Grant Douglas's Garden Diary

Week 47: Fourth week of November

Just realised that I have not been putting Sprouting Broccoli on the list. Very remiss of me as it's a standard year round crop. I find the variety Marathon extremely good as it can be grown, with good results, all year round - grow it quickly, lots of food, and keep on top of the caterpillars, either by covering the plants, or using an organic insecticide such as Dipel, which only kills the caterpillars. Encourage predator wasps by planting umbelliferous plants and they will parasitise the caterpillars and thus reduce their numbers but they will not completely eradicate them.

Same list as last week. Remember that although it feels like February, its still only late spring.

Sowing or Planting this week:

Tomatoes, Peppers, Chillis, Egg Plant
Basil
Beetroot
Beans - Scarlet, Runner (Shiney Fardenlosa), Dwarf ,Butter
Cabbage (Red and Green)
Cauliflower (Frieda - Summer variety)
Celeriac (for transplanting or direct)
Cucumber/Gherkins (am trying Lebanese Cucumbers this year - short type with very tender skin)
Kohl Rabi
Kumaras
Leeks
Lettuce (Loose-leaf Fancy and Hearting (Webbs or Greatlakes)
Onions
Pepinos
Potatoes - keep a succession of plantings going
Pumpkin/Squash
Red Onions
Silverbeet and Perpetual Spinach
Spinach (New Zealand)
Spring Onions
Sweet Corn
Watermelon/Rockmelon
Yams
Zuchini

Sow Direct:

Carrots - I find Topweight a good early variety
Chinese Greens and Cabbage
Corn Salad
Corriander/Dill
Mescalin Mix
Parsnips
Rocket
Radish

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