November Gardening To Do List

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

November Notes

Early summer already, gosh how time flies

Sow Direct Seed of:
Vegetables:
Bush beans
Cabbage
Grain crops
Leek
Lettuce
Rocket
Silver beet (pre-soak seed)
NZ Spinach (pre-soak seed)
Climbing beans
Cucumber
Aubergine
Sweetcorn
Pumpkin
Rock melon
Spring onions
Summer squash
Tomato
Water melon
Beetroot (pre-soak seed)
Carrot
Radish
Sweet potato
Zucchini
Herbs:
Dill
Verbena
Flowers:
Comos
Everlasting daisy
Nasturtium
Sunflower
African & French marigold
Phlox
Petunia

Sow or Plant Out:
Vegetables:
Spring onions
Sweet & purple basil
Herbs:
Parsley
Verbena
Dandelion
Lemongrass
Mint
Pyrethrum
Watercress
Fruit:
Banana
Passionfruit
Pawpaw
Flowers:
Ageratum
Celosia
Dianthus
African & French marigold
Petunia
Phlox
Snapdragon

Plant:
Asparagus seedlings
Chrysanthemum
Gazania
Gerbera
Shansta daisy
Bearded iris
Bananas
Frangipani
Mango
Plant a green manure crop or cover crop of: Cowpea, mung bean, pigeon pea, soybean, millet, Japanese millet, sorghum
In suitable soils grow amaranth

GENERAL
Prune: Climbing roses, ramblers all after flowering. Also thin apple trees.

Take cutting of: Rosemary, thyme, & watercress

Prepare beds for: A late crop of potatoes

FEEDING
On damp soil: apply fertiliser tea to: Young rhubarb, melon sown in October. Also to cabbage, celery, leek, lettuce, silver beet, & young passion fruit

Apply seaweed tea to: Young grapes, citrus, crepe myrtle
Apply ? strength to Kiwi fruit

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

HARVEST
Radicchio
Gooseberries
Green Walnuts
Beetroot
Sugar snap peas