Spring organic gardening tips for southern hemisphere food gardeners. This is a time when nature begins to waken from its winter slumber and this certainly very obvious in temperate climates.
Though down in southern Australia, a mighty winter blast has held back the warmth this week and gone to deep freeze. But this will not last long and such an extreme presents a common challenge at change of season. Do I go with warmer season crops, get them in early or wait a bit until the season really changes. Tricky questions in the time of increasing variability with weather.
In my sub-tropical climate, spring it is often dry and warm to hot whilst in temperate climates, it is usually moist and mild to warm. These generalised climate definitions are helpful in defining major activities in the garden and, of course, there are always exceptions.
Here are spring organic gardening tips to help you have a productive food garden over the next 3 months – September to end of November.
You should notice a lot more flowers coming out in and round your gardens now. The bees at our place are multiplying at an amazing rate. We have 1 native bee hive and 3 top bar hives for European bees and I can see the increase activity of the bees around our gardens with the warmth. It is beautiful to observe this transformation of life and to eat the incredible honey.
I work with those spring organic gardening tips in my gardens. I am planting fruiting crops such as cucumbers, beans, roma tomatoes, pumpkins, capsicums, zucchinis and eggplant. These will be a little slow to start because it is still cool at the night. I will also combine leafy crops that don’t mind the warmth, grow quickly and can be placed in the shade of climbing frames I create for some of the fruiting crops we grow.
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Authored by Peter Kearney – www.beta.myfoodgarden.com.au
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