Gardening by the moon in June

FULL MOON
Friday, 28 May 2010
Garden: 
  • Plant garlic 3 days after full moon, also tree onions, shallots, potato, onions
Orchard: 
  • Mark strong clumps of bulbs or clumps that need to be dug and divided to dig later
  • Planting and pruning fruit trees, hedgerow trees, bee forage and shelter trees
  • Manure and prune feijoas now
  • Begin pruning macadamias once the crop is off
LAST QUARTER
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Garden: 
  • Time for dreaming and resting and finding inspiration for the year to come
Orchard: 
  • Plant fruit trees
  • Prune fruit trees
  • Manure and prune feijoas (feijoas are pollinated by birds so need to be pruned from inside to be open)
  • Prune, lime, manure and mulch all berry fruits, blueberries, cranberries, blackberries, logan berries and raspberries,
  • De-sucker raspberries
NEW MOON
Saturday, 12 June 2010
Garden: 
  • Think carefully about what possible seed saving you might like to be doing over the next season.
  • Now is the time to decide how important it is for you to be growing veges and fruit with a high nutritional density (bearing in mind that eating nutritional dense food will be the most sustainable way of staying healthy while taking care of the environment!!) The only way to do that is to be growing them in a balanced, highly mineralised soil with high levels of humus and microrganisms. If you want to increase the nutrient density of your produce and you feel you need specific direction then I would recommend you get a copy of the Institute Brochure Growing Nutrient Dense Food from either the Koanga shop info@koanga.co.nz or the Institute website or catalogue when it comes out in July. You will then be able to obtain the correct balanced mineralised product for your garden. If you are clear you want to go for nutritional density but do not which to do a soil test then I would recommend you use Nature’s Garden Fertiliser and Bio Lime  (available at Koanga Gardens Centre for Sustainable Living info@koanga.co.nz ).
  • Organise your seed raising mix for the spring. If you’re making your own use 1/3 screened garden soil, 1/3 screened compost, 1/3 sand and then add 10% vermicast.
Orchard: 
  • Decide whether you’re going to deal with all pests and diseases in the orchard over the next year by:
  1.  Focusing only on healthy soil and roots (moisture levels, nutrients, mulch etc)
  2.  Using a regular seaweed or fish or one of Environmental fertilisers mixed sprays specifically for either encouraging growth or flowers and fruit (could be done at the same time and as well as step 1)
  • Finish planting and pruning fruit trees
FIRST QUARTER
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Garden: 
  • Clean out tunnel houses, green houses and potting benches ready for spring planting - slugs and snails live under rubbish and things lying aroun
  • Repot and revitalise pot plants
  • Prepare beds for early potatoes, peas and broad beans(in the north)
Orchard: 
  • Once all planting and pruning, stacking, manuring and mulching is in the orchard, it’s holiday time. If you’re onto it you’ll get a small break before the vege garden is full on!
FULL MOON
Saturday, 26 June 2010
Garden: 
  • Collect your seeds ready for a big early garden planting into seed trays next new moon
  • Plant early potatoes Jersey Bennes, Karoro, King Edward,
  • Plant broad beans and peas into trays ready to transplant when tops are up
Orchard: 
  • Have a knees up