How to
Create a Winter Vegie Patch
Lots of vegies love the cold weather so there’s no reason why you can’t continue producing your own healthy food from your winter garden.
Here’s how:
- Spinach, carrots, cabbages and spring onions can be grown from Yates seeds at this time of year in all but the coldest areas.
- Prepare soil before planting by digging in lots of rich organic matter (such as homemade compost) and some Dynamic Lifter Organic Plant Food pellets.
- Sow carrot and spring onion seeds direct where the plants are to grow. Start cabbage seeds and spinach in seedling pots.
- Feed the new young plants with Thrive Soluble Plant food to encourage strong growth.
- Pests can still cause problems in the winter garden. Use Blitzem or Baysol to control snails and slugs. Yates Ready-To-Use Pyrethrum will take care of most other pests. Because of pyrethrum?s low toxicity, vegies can be picked, washed and eaten just one day after spraying.
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Yates site member
20:14, 23 March 2011
I have still got tomatoes growing havent planted the carrots yet
adam
Yates site member
06:16, 13 June 2011
I have still got cherry tomatoes growing, as well as cucumbers, just waiting for them to ripen
ROY
Yates site member
14:10, 20 June 2011
Tomatoes etc-long gone. Now preparing for peas & broad beens,damn it! it's raining,-time for a beer.(crazy weather)
debbyanne
Yates site member
10:11, 13 July 2011
Have now got spinach growing! would love to know how to stop birds eating my carrot seeds as they do not get a chance to grow.
debbyanne
Yates site member
10:13, 13 July 2011
I now have spinach growing. How can i stop birds eating my carrot seeds though?
Jillian
Yates site member
08:09, 04 August 2011
My cabbages are do not have a very lot of head just a lot of outside leaves
ivor
Yates site member
15:02, 03 November 2011
my broccoli grew fairly quick but also went to seed quickly. how do I get the heads to get tight and solid
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