Planting Plan: Spring/Summer 2020
Here are our plans for the Spring/Summer plantings 2020:
On our last general meeting we looked into options to make our garden more drought tolerant. Planting more native species was one of the suggestions. At this stage our garden offers Warrigal Greens and Finger Lime. We asked our members for suggestions and included native plants in the last planning survey. A quarter of our …
Here are our plans for the Autumn and Winter planting, provided water restrictions will be eased and we don’t have to keep some beds fallow.
In Mort Bay Community Garden we grow a wide variety of crops, which all need a plant-specific set of nutrients and are challenged by different pests. Growing a sequence of different types of crops in any one bed over subsequent seasons is called crop rotation, a strategy already practised by Middle Eastern farmers 8000 years …