February Gardening To Do List

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

February Notes.

IMPORTANT MONTH

For collecting seeds. Summer is in full swing now, enjoy the lazy days and great produce from your kitchen garden.
Watch, harvest, dry & save seeds from favourite and best vegetables.

PLANTING:

Sow direct seed for:
Vegetables:
Bush beans
Beetroot (pre-soak seed)
Cabbage
Carrot
Lettuce
Parsnip
Radicchio
Radish
Silver beet (pre-soak seed)
Swede
Turnip

Sow in trays or Plant out seedling for:
Vegetables:
Carrot
Parsnip
Swede
Turnip
Brussels sprouts
Leeks
Spring onions
Bulb Fennel (in late feb)
Celery (in late feb)
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Summer Squash
Dandelion
Herbs:
Rocket
Mizuna
Coriander
Parsley
Dandelion
Mint
Watercress
Flowers:
Ageratum
Cornflower
Nemesia
Nigella
Pansy
Viola
Iceland Poppy
Stocks
Verbena

In cooler areas: Sow or plant out: Peas (in late feb)
In warm areas: Sow or plant out: Potato, pineapple, mango, sweetcorn & sweet basil

Herbs
Take cuttings of: Mint, marjoram, oregano, rosemary, sage, thyme, watercress & lavender.

Grow a green manure crops of: Early cowpea, mungbean, barley, Japanese millet or oats
Also cereal rye in late feb

GENERAL
Collect & make mulch for next year.
Prune all stone fruit trees, especially young trees after harvest.
Dry Harvested Flowers
Remove berry-bearing foliage from female asparagus plants

MOISTURE CONTROL
Top up compost/mulch around vegetables, Macadamia and fig trees

FEEDING
Lightly fertilise fig, young citrus, mature bananas, passionfruit, and grapes (after harvest)
Give camellia’s a sprinkle of used tea leaves
Correct magnesium deficiency in citrus if needed

On damp soil:
Use fertiliser tea for: young grapes, asparagus seedlings and young crowns
Use seaweed tea for: strawberries

ORCHARD
Lightly fertilise fig, young citrus, mature bananas, passionfruit, and grapes (after harvest)
Prune all stone fruit trees, especially young trees after harvest

HARVEST
A busy time for harvesting everything from:
Aubergines
Capsicums
Beans of all varieties
Garlic
Maori potatoes
Tomatoes