Actual Temperature
10 degrees Celsius
Humidity : 80%
Rainfall : 0.00mm
Wind : Lighty Wind
Strawberries enjoy acid soil and cool weather. Now is a good time to prepare a strawberry plot by stuffing it with as much as rotted compost and animal manure as you can find. Strawberries like to be fed until they are bursting and they also like good drainage. A mulch of pine needles or oak leaves is said to improve the flavour of the berries and the mulch also serves to keep the fruit dry and free of soil. Untreated sawdust also makes good mulch. Now is the time to plant strawberry runners, especially in warm northern areas.
10 degrees Celsius
Humidity : 80%
Rainfall : 0.00mm
Wind : Lighty Wind
Strawberries enjoy acid soil and cool weather. Now is a good time to prepare a strawberry plot by stuffing it with as much as rotted compost and animal manure as you can find. Strawberries like to be fed until they are bursting and they also like good drainage. A mulch of pine needles or oak leaves is said to improve the flavour of the berries and the mulch also serves to keep the fruit dry and free of soil. Untreated sawdust also makes good mulch. Now is the time to plant strawberry runners, especially in warm northern areas.
Getting Ready
Rhubarb is a very hard and frost resistant plant - it needs a period of winter cold to produce the best stalks. With sun, moisture, a little compost and a dash of general purpose fertiliser, rhubarb will flourish and provide you with with delicious stalks at a time of the year when little else is cropping in the garden. In cold areas, it pays to cover the leaves with frost cloth or a few fine branches for shelter. A note of caution - the leaves of rhubarb contain oxalic acid, which is poisonous to humans, and should not be eaten.
If the temperature are beginning to fall rapidly, this is a good time to dig the garden throughly and add a compost mulch or pea straw to the soil.
Frost-prone Areas
Broad beans and spinach, such as the winter-hardy "Bloomingsdale", can be sown or planted, a can a wide variety of winter-hardy salad and general kitchen vegetables. Peas such as the "Petitb Provencal" types can also be sown now for an early winter crop. Kale and giant red mustard will flourish in the cold weather, as will the delicious salad green mizuna, miner's lettuce, pak choy and bok choy.
Frost-Free Areas
Brocoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, leeks, onions, potatoes, silverbeet, celery and winter lettuce can be sown or planted out in the open. Bok choy, as well as the mesclun salad seed mixes, grow in both the north and south of the country. This mix contains endive, corn salad, rocket, chicory and various coloured and green lettuces.
Autumn-sown broad beans need good drainage. Sow them 5cm deep directly where you want them to grow to get good roots established that will support a heavy late-winter and spring crop. Plants sown now will grow to 5 - 10cm and stay this size through the winter establishing strong side roots. Add fertiliser around the root in the spring.
Seeds of other vegetables such as cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, lettuce, onion and spinach can be sown into the garden. I prefer to use the seed trays to raise seedlings and then plant them out when they are reasonably established.
Frost-Free Areas
Brocoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, leeks, onions, potatoes, silverbeet, celery and winter lettuce can be sown or planted out in the open. Bok choy, as well as the mesclun salad seed mixes, grow in both the north and south of the country. This mix contains endive, corn salad, rocket, chicory and various coloured and green lettuces.
Autumn-sown broad beans need good drainage. Sow them 5cm deep directly where you want them to grow to get good roots established that will support a heavy late-winter and spring crop. Plants sown now will grow to 5 - 10cm and stay this size through the winter establishing strong side roots. Add fertiliser around the root in the spring.
Seeds of other vegetables such as cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, lettuce, onion and spinach can be sown into the garden. I prefer to use the seed trays to raise seedlings and then plant them out when they are reasonably established.
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