• Bird protection on all grain beds
• Check out the Bio Intensive making Compost booklet to ensure you make the best possible use of your grain stems (carbon). A ratio of 60:1 carbon:nitrogen gives you the highest return of biologically active carbon, micro-organisms and complex nitrogen.
• Collect, dry, freeze and store any vege and flower seeds
• Plant cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts, lettuce, peas, mizuna, rocket in shade, celery, coriander and parsley. This planting is really important to avoid big gaps in May and June
• Use EF:Biopesticide to control white butterfly caterpillars on all brassicas until it gets cold
• Harvest shellout or dried beans
• Harvest corn for drying and hang up
• Weeding
• Plant empty beds with fast growing green manure crops such as mustard, or phacelia
• Plant a wide range of flowers for Autumn and Spring flowering such as calendula, chamomile, stocks, hollyhocks, Sweet William, Chinese forget me nots, columbine and verbascum

Plant empty beds in green manure crops such as mustard, buckwheat and carbon crops. The crops planted now will provide the most carbon next Spring, and will be great beneficial insect plants .

Foliar feed three days before the full moon

Plant root vegetables such as carrots, beetroot, parsnips, turnips and swedes

Liquid feed tomatoes, peppers and eggplants with liquid comfrey, adding vermicast or some other source of humates/carbon to hold the minerals where the plant roots need them.

Continue making liquid comfrey to feed tomatoes and peppers

Foliar feed three days after the full moon

Spray any tomatoes or potatoes with signs of blight or pumpkins showing signs of powdery mildew with raw milk (1 litre to 10 litres) or our Bio pesticide which will kill all the unwanted fungal blight spores as well as the unwanted bugs.

Cover seed crops from birds

Harvest seeds and dry and process as fast as possible
 

Prick out seedlings, transplant and weed

Check corn, quinoa and amaranth grains for maturity and harvest

Harvest, dry and store seeds from your favourite vegetables and flowers, choose the largest heaviest seeds, they are the best.!

Harvest seed from Austrian Hulless pumpkins when they have a yellow stripe on them. Dry until the seed breaks when bent

If you planted mustard as a catch crop frshield bugs/stink bugs, then now is a good time to spray with EF:Biopesticide to prevent an explosion of bugs. Asyou achieve high brixcrops you will not be troubled by stink bugs

Harvest shellout or dried beans and peas

Make sure all garlic, onions and shallots are harvested and well stored.

Plan winter garden and make sure you know which beds your strawberries, garlic, early peas and broadbeans will be in. As Summer crops come off these beds, you could plant vetch,a legume, my favourite cover before planting these crops during the cold wet season. All you have to do is use a shark or similar to cut off the tops from the roots just before planting. Ithen U Bar the bed and plant immediately. Vetch leaves the soil looking and feeling like chocolate cake!

Foliar feed roses, and water roots well

Sow anemones and daffodils, flowering bulbs

Lift gladioli when foliage turns yellow

Water and feed dahlias for long strong flowering

Take geranium cuttings

Layer carnations

Prepare beds for planting Autumn / Winter flowers