Monthly Checklist
Plant Now
Tend To
Essentials
Plant Now
Winter veggies, seeds, citrus, avocados, feijoas, camellia, hedging, annual colour, perennials, and bulbs.
Tend To
Watering, feeding, deadheading, raking, preparing, and harvesting.
Essentials
Kings Fast Food, and Living Earth Lawn Mix.
Plant Now
Winter veggies, seeds, citrus, avocados, feijoas, camellia, hedging, annual colour, perennials, and bulbs.
Veggies
- Start planting your winter veggies now.
- Stagger seedlings by planting some now, and the rest over the course of autumn. Sow root veggies including beetroot, parsnip and carrots directly into the garden, and sow lettuce, kale, broccoli and cabbage in seedling trays.
- Sow coriander and parsley seeds in seedling trays, or plant out seedlings into the garden. Weed veggie beds while weeds are still small.
Fruit Trees
- Autumn is the best time to get citrus planted with a wide range available at Kings.
- Plant to get roots established now before the cold sets in.
- Never buy over-priced avocado fruit again! All Kings avocados are grafted and need to be planted in free-draining soil to produce fruit. Plant with a pollinator partner and protect from frost when young.
- Plant two different feijoa varieties that fruit at slightly different times to stagger your harvest and boost your crop’s yield.
Trees and Shrubs
- New-season Camellia varieties are instore this month with a large range of colourful blooms. Grow as an evergreen hedge either in full sun or in shade, or as a feature plant. Early-flowering varieties bloom from early autumn to mid-winter.
- Start thinking about planting hedging plants to get them established for the next year.
Flowers and Perennials
- Fill your garden with annual colour, including salvias, marigolds, petunias, seedling dahlias and gazanias.
- There are a wide range of perennials now in bloom. Choose from beautiful Chrysanthemums, Asters and hardy mini Cyclamen.
- Our full range of spring bulbs will be coming in this month, including Freesia, hyacinths and daffodils.
Tend To
Watering, feeding, deadheading, raking, preparing, and harvesting.
Veggies
- Don’t forget to water leafy edibles often to avoid them going to seed too fast.
- Keep aside seed potatoes in a cool, dark place after harvesting and plant in early autumn.
Fruit Trees
- Feed and water around the root zone of established plants.
- Refrain from underplanting citrus as they have sensitive feeding roots that dislike competing for space.
- Dispose of any rotting or diseased fruit off-site.
Flowers and Perennials
- Deadhead spent flowers and continue to feed with Kings Fast Food.
Lawn
- Autumn is the best time to start germinating new lawn seed. Preparation is key, so rake and create a level firm surface free from weeds before using lawn mix and your chosen seed.
Harvest
- March is full of tasty crops, ripe for the picking. Continue to harvest your delicious fresh veggies!
- Pick beans, peas, capsicum, chilli, tomatoes and the last of the courgettes.
- Fruit including lemons and limes, watermelons, feijoas, apples and pears are best fresh – use in smoothies, cereal or in salads.