December Gardening To Do List

Monthly Calender for Newbie Gardener’s in the Southern Hemisphere.

December Notes

Full summer and a bountiful harvest is to be had. time to keep planting and sowing. What a great reward for all our hard work, not to mention what the fruits of our labour puts in!!

Sow Direct Seed of:
Vegetables:
Cabbage
Lettuce
Silver beet (pre-soak seed)
Bush & climbing beans
Sweetcorn
Herbs:
Dill
Flowers:
Comos
Nasturtium
Sunflower

Sow or Plant Out:
Vegetables:
Leeks
Spring onions
Capsicum
Cauliflower
Cucumber
Carrot
Aubergine,
Leek
Rock melon
Summer squash
Tomato
Beetroot (pre-soak seed)
Parsnip
Radish
Water melon
Zucchini
Herbs:
Verbena
Mint
Dandelion
Lemon grass
Watercress
Fruits:
Banana
Passion fruit
Mango
Pineapple
Flowers:
Ageratum
Celosia
African & French marigolds
Petunia

Plant a green manure crop or cover crop of: Adzuki bean, cowpea, mung bean, pigeon pea, soybean, millet. Japanese millet & sorghum
In suitable soils grow amaranth

GENERAL
Take Cuttings of: Hyssop, lavender, marjoram, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage, thyme, and watercress. Also Chrysanthemum & frangipani

Prune: Roses & young fig trees

Divide: Bearded iris

FEEDING
On damp soil: apply fertiliser tea to:
Asparagus seedling & young crowns, young grapes, melons sown in November, young avocado, mango, pawpaw, cabbage, lettuce, young rhubarb, silver beet & young passionfruit if necessary.

Apply seaweed tea to: Pawpaw and potato bed for January planting
Apply ? strength to young pawpaw & kiwi fruit

After Watering fertilise: Kiwi fruit, almond, apple, apricot, peach, pear & rhubarb
Lightly fertilise: Blueberry

HARVEST
Sweet cherries
Strawberries
Swiss Chard
Tomatoes
Red Currants
Cucumbers