Weekend plans

JOBS TO BE DONE: 12 April 2025

9 to 10am followed by coffee and chat.

Once again we will focus on preparing beds for Winter crops, tending potted plants, fertilising citrus.

Suggest you harvest for your own personal use.

Arbor 1-N/A

Bed 1- Plant Broccoletti seedlings,adding a little worm castings well underneath them, settle with Seasol liquid fertiliser. (3 capful/9L watering can) Add some snail bait.Sprinkle some Parsley seeds along the edge of the bed beside current Parsley plants. Harvest Basil for your own use.

A 2- Check for germination of Sweet Peas. Plant a couple more if not.

B 2-  Prepare bed for Pea crop… Remove 3/4/Native Violet plants carefully to enable transplanting into 2 pots under Makrut Lime tree. Also remove Alyssum flowers from 2 eastern end pots on road side fence then top up pots with potting mix, then transplant Native Violets. Settle with Seasol liquid fertiliser. (3 capsful/9L watering can).

Leave Capsicum plants.

Chop & drop green manure, then top dress bed with compost from C2, sprinkle a little dolomite lime and follow with a light pea straw mulch.

A 3- Cucumbers continue their generous cropping.

B 3- Fertilise bed with Worm Tea (Ratio 1:10)

A 4- Cucumbers are also still producing flowers so leave them to see if cucumbers mature. Plant some Sugar Snap Climbing Peas in between the Cucumber plants.

B 4- Plant Baby Tuscan seedlings, adding a little worm castings well underneath them. Settle with Seasol Liquid fertiliser (3 capsful / 9L watering can)

A 5- Plant Sugar Snap Peas.

B 5- Plant Lettuce seeds between Celery & Arbor.

A 6- Plant Sweet Pea seeds.

B 6- Harvest leafy greens for your own use. Can we squeeze in a row of beetroot seeding tape???

Stink Bug prevention

Jen Beer, the CoS Coordinator, has suggested we prune the Tahitian Lime tree now as well as giving it a slow release organic fertiliser and some worm castings. Is anyone free to help with pruning during the week?

Fertilise all citrus trees as recommended above.

Bay Tree isn’t happy. Suggest removing herbs from around the base of tree then fertilising as for citrus.

Verbena overhanging front fence can be pruned and branches taken home for leave to dry.

Echinacea at front gate - prune back stems which have dead flowers.

There are weeds along the road side of the southern fence. Suggest trying the spray I’ve made (vinegar, salt & dishwashing liquid)

Empty rain gauge & advise total.

Trim Lemon Tagetes Marigold shoot to encourage a more compact, branching plant 

Tend compost and worm farms 👨‍🌾