Autumn gardening
A veggie plant listing for Autumn in Tasmania…
MARCH
PLANT: Garlic cloves and seedlings of celery, kale, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, winter lettuce, silverbeet, spring and salad onion, chives and leeks.
SOW: Beetroot, carrot and parsnip early in March only. Then turnip, English spinach, broadbeans, peas (frost-free districts only), Asian leaf and root vegetables, spring and salad onions, lettuce and into vacant beds, green manure crops.
APRIL
PLANT: Garlic cloves and seedlings of salad and spring onions, late leeks, winter lettuce, silverbeet, mini-cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes (early, frost-free districts only) and green manure crops.
SOW: Spring and salad onions, English spinach, Japanese turnip, broadbeans and Asian cabbages and root crops.
MAY
PLANT: Broccoli, early potatoes, broad beans, garlic, spring and salad onions, Japanese turnip and winter lettuce.
SOW: Broad beans, English spinach, Asian brassicas and root crops, spring and salad onions, shallots, chives and green manure crops.