Monthly Checklist
Plant Now
Tend To
Essentials
Plant Now
Winter veggies and seedlings, citrus, figs, flowering shrubs, camellias and hedging, flowers and perennials.
Tend To
Composting, sowing, weeding, deadheading, spraying and harvesting.
Essentials
Kings Citrus and Fruit Tree Fertiliser, Green Crops, Yates Weed 'n' Feed, and Kings Liquid Fast Food.
Plant Now
Winter veggies and seedlings, citrus, figs, flowering shrubs, camellias and hedging, flowers and perennials.
Veggies
- Continue to plant and stagger your seedling crops for winter.
- Plant out leeks, spring onion, lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli and broad beans.
- It’s not too late to sow carrot, turnip and beetroot seeds directly into well-tilled soil.
Fruit Trees
- Figs are now in stores, and can be grown both in the ground or in large pots. Water well to avoid dry, fluffy fruit.
- Plant dwarf citrus in large pots or normal varieties in a sunny position in the garden.
Trees and Shrubs
- Get autumn and winter flowering shrubs into the garden now.
- Camellias are well suited to full sun or full shade depending on the variety, and azaleas will continue to flower throughout the cooler months.
- Put your hedges in now while the soil is still warm. Eugenia, Griselinias and Pittosporum are great for medium to large hedging, while Corokia and Buxus are best for smaller, well-maintained spots.
Flowers and Perennials
- Plant out potted colour such as primula, polyanthus, cyclamen, poppies, viola and pansies in pots and hanging baskets.
- Put tulips and hyacinth bulbs into the fridge for a month before planting to encourage better blooms. Deformed blooms can usually be due to little chill and early sprouting.
- Plant daffodils directly into the garden now.
Tend To
Composting, sowing, weeding, deadheading, spraying and harvesting.
Veggies
- Take out spent veggie plants once crops have finished.
- Save seed from heirloom varieties by drying on a paper towel for a few days on a sunny windowsill.
- Dig in compost and sheep pellets around beds that are still producing, and sow compost crops such as lupin and mustard seed in empty garden beds to reintroduce natural nitrogen and help keep weeds at bay.
Fruit Trees
- If you haven’t already, feed fruit trees with Kings Fruit and Citrus Fertiliser now.
Flowers and Perennials
- Weed flower gardens and feed plants with Kings Fast Food.
- Remove spent flowers regularly to keep plants looking good and encourage prolonged flowering.
Lawns
- Spray any weedy, established lawn with Weed ‘n’ Feed. Repair damaged lawns with a lawn seed patch pack.
Harvest
- Harvest feijoas as they ripen and remove fruits infected with guava moth off-site instead of composting.
- Pick and dry chillies for later use.
- Harvest the last pumpkins, squash and sweetcorn. Freeze any excess, or make into soup and then freeze in old ice-cream containers.
- Harvest late-season potatoes, along with your normal leafy salad greens every few days.