Planting Calendar
For temperate/cool temperate areas of Australia This pdf gives you printable pages
There is one card for every calendar month. The size is equivalent to a standard 3 x 5 inch systems ling card so you can either print directly onto thick card or print on paper and then glue to cards.
Frost Tender Vegetables
All varieties in red and marked with are frost tender. Tomatoes, capsicums and eggplants, in particular, should be grown as seedlings in a warm spot (cold frame or solarium) to get an early start. Seeds of frost tender varieties can be sown one or two weeks before the last possible frost (if you are into gambling!) A plastic cloche covering the bed or row will also help extend the growing season.
Shade
Some vegetable seed will not germinate in hot weather. Shade is essential for the varieties marked in green. All seedlings benet from being under 50% shade cloth on hot, windy days and it is possible to extend the growing season for less heat tolerant varieties such as English Spinach by growing them under shade cloth in summer.
Planting Schedule
Large Kitchen Gardens & CSAs
One planting once every month will sufce to give year round harvesting. However, if it is possible sow several varieties of the one vegetable to extend the picking dates.
Restaurant Suppliers & Larger Scale Market Gardeners
Planting will have to be done more often. In the warmer months the smaller, fast growing crops such as lettuces, salad mix, radishes.... will have to be sown every 12 weeks to ensure consistent harvesting.
Ensuring Plenty Of Salad Greens For Winter
In cold areas growth slows down to almost nothing in the middle of winter. To ensure continuous harvesting of greens it is important to plant EXTRA seeds in the autumn months. This is indicated on the cards.
July
back over 10 hrs of Daylight (Lat 35S) Sow Straight Into Ground
Mesclun Salad Mix
Grow Seedlings
August
Grow Seedlings
Sow Straight Into Ground
Coriander, Dill, Fennel, Chervil English Spinach PeasShelling Varieties, Snow & sugar Snap Broadbeans Mesclun Salad Mix Radish Onion seedlings into ground
BroccoliWinter Varieties Chinese Leafy GreensMizuna, Pak Choi, Senposai... Keeping Varieties OnionsBrown & Red Capsicums & Chillies Eggplants
BroccoliWinter Varieties Celeriac Chinese Leafy GreensMizuna, Pak Choi, Senposai... Leeks Tomatoes
September
Grow Seedlings
Sow Straight Into Ground
Beetroot Coriander, Dill, Fennel, Chervil English Spinach Mesclun Salad Mix PeasShelling, Snow &sugar Snap Peas Potatoes Radish Rocket Corn salad Cardoon
October
Grow Seedlings
Sow Straight Into Ground
Beetroot Coriander, Dill, Fennel, Chervil English Spinach Mesclun Salad Mix Potatoes Radish Rocket Corn salad
Broccoli (Winter Variety) CabbageEarly Ball Heads, Sugarloaf Capsicums Celeriac Chinese Leafy GreensMizuna, Pak Choi, Senposai... Eggplants Endive Leeks LettuceCos, Salad Bowl Silverbeet Spring Onions Tomatoes
Basil Celeriac Celery Endive Leeks LettuceCos, Salad Bowl Parsley Silverbeet Spring Onions Tomatoes
November
Grow Seedlings
*Last Frost* Sow Straight Into Ground
Beans Beetroot Carrots Cucumbers Melons Mesclun - very small amount only Parsnips PeasSnow, Sugar Snap Potatoes Pumpkins Rocket Squash Sweetcorn
December
Basil
Grow Seedlings
Sow Straight Into Ground
Beans Beetroot Carrots Coriander, Dill, Fennel, Chervil Cucumbers Mesclun Salad Mix Parsnips Melb Whiteskin PeasSnow, Sugar Snap Potatoes Radish Rocket Squash Sweetcorn
Basil Brussel Sprouts CabbageSavoy, Red Celeriac Celery Endive Leeks LettuceCos, Salad Bowl, Head Radicchio Silverbeet Spring Onions All Franchi Caulis
Broccoli CabbageRed, Ball Head Cauliflower Celeriac Endive, Radicchio, Scarola, Pan di Zucchero Kale Leeks LettuceHead Silverbeet Spring Onions
January
Grow Seedlings
Sow Straight Into Ground
Beetroot Bush Beans Carrots Coriander, Dill, Fennel, Chervil Florence Fennel Mesclun Salad Mix Parsnips Radish Rocket Sweetcorn
February
Grow Seedlings
Sow Straight Into Ground
Coriander, Dill, Fennel, Chervil English Spinach Mesclun Salad Mix Oriental Turnips Rocket Swedes Turnips RadishesSummer & Winter Types
Broccoli CabbageBall Head Cauliflower Endive, Radicchio, Scarola, Pan di Zucchero Kale Leeks LettuceHeading Silverbeet Spring Onions
BroccoliLate Types CabbageWinter Ball Heads Chinese CabbagesAll Types Including Heading Varieties (Bok Choi) Endive, Scarola, Pan di Zucchero LettuceButterheads Spring Onions
March
Grow Seedlings
Sow Straight Into Ground
Corn Salad English SpinachEXTRA Coriander, Dill, Fennel, Chervil Mesclun Salad MixEXTRA Oriental Turnips RocketEXTRA Winter Radishes
April
*First Frost* Sow Straight Into Ground
Broad Beans Corn Salad English Spinach Garlic Mesclun Salad MixEXTRA RocketEXTRA Winter Green Manures
Grow Seedlings
Cauliflower For Spring EndiveEXTRA LettucesButterheads, Cos, Salad BowlEXTRA Spring onion
Cauliflower For Spring LettucesButterheads, Cos, Salad Bowl OnionsEarly Flat White,Salad
May
Onions - all
Go Under 10 hrs of Daylight (Lat 35S) Sow Straight Into Ground
Broadbeans Mesclun Salad MixUnder Cover Peas
Grow Seedlings
June
Onionsall
Under 10 hrs of Daylight (Lat 35S) Sow Straight Into Ground
Mesclun Salad MixUnder Cover
Grow Seedlings
