NEW MOON November 18th 2024
Garden
- Last time to plant comfrey root cuttings
- Prick out and transplant all seedlings ready to go into the garden
- Prepare beds for late spring planting
- Plant seeds for summer/autumn flowers, sunflowers, zinnias, cosmos, love lies bleeding, nicotiana, gaillardia
- Plant more corn, beans, courgettes, cucumbers, late tomatoes, lettuce, basil etc
- Mulch as many of your vege beds as practical, corn, pumpkins, tomatoes, climbing beans and peppers are easy to mulch, with comfrey, alfalfa, ramial wood chip ( once crops are well away)
Temperate Forest Garden
- Check moisture levels under young trees and water where necessary
- Mulch deciduous orchard areas
- Time to cut grass one way or another to feed the soil fungi who feed the tree roots in a biological system
- Time to set possum trap lines outside fruit tree area to catch roving possums before they damage trees or eat fruit
Berries
- Mulch berry fruits and organise netting
FIRST QUARTER
November
Garden
- Prick out and transplant seedlings, make sure you have loads of companion flowers going into the vege garden, zinnias, sunflowers, cleome, marigolds, bedding dahlias, cosmos, love lies bleeding, gaillardia
- Basil, alyssum and classic zinnias are great companions for tomatoes, plant them now
- Give a regular foliar spray using seaweed, vermi liquid, fish/phyter etc
- Apply liquid feed such as liquid comfrey, liquid cow manure by watering can to ground under tomatoes, peppers and any other plants needing a boost
- Harvesting flowers and herbs for drying
- Decide how you’re going to manage blight in tomatoes and potatoes. Prevention is more effective than any way of sorting the problem once blight is there. Either do weekly fish and phyter or fish and phyter on the soil monthly and a raw milk spray weekly, or Agrisea seaweed spray weekly, or a copper spray with rain guard to make it last longer when needed
- Feed and water asparagus to keep it producing until Christmas
Perennials
- You’ll be feasting on asparagus, globe artichokes, Welsh bunching onions, Giant Solomon’s Seal possibly sea kale and Alpine Strawberries about now.. enjoy
- Continue bed prep for new perennial beds,
- Still time to plan a perennial garden and get seeds and begin this season
Temperate Forest Garden
- Keep up the watering
- Cut grass
- Check for pest problems, and ask what the cause of the problem is so it can be fixed, at least for next season..water stress, lack of minerals in alanace?
- Watch for breaking branches as early fruit swells, may need to thin fruit or prop up branches especially the Orion peach and Marabella plum
- Feed citrus to encourage strong healthy growth at this time
Berries
- Remove any unwanted suckers from berry fruit, being sure to leave strongest 6-10 for next year’s fruit
FULL MOON November 27th
Garden
- Foliar feed if necessary all veges with seaweed, fish/phyter, vermi liquid etc
- Liquid feed ground around any plants that need a boost
- Plant kumara tupu
- Plant main crop potatoes onto trenches of wilted comfrey leaves,
- Plant Jerusalem artichokes, Chinese artichokes, yams, yacon
- More transplanting
- Mulch any beds that are ready
- Harvest flowers and herbs and seeds for drying
Temperate Forest Garden
- Keep watering and watch for pest/disease problems
- Make sure grass is laid down to feed fungi and root zone
- spread ramial wood chip
- Time to look at how you are going to feed the fungi in the Forest Garden to ensure next years fruit set is a good one.. ramial wood chip mulch and Bone ash or Char and Biochar is the direction we go