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Tasks for Producing Real Food

Goji berry - more antioxidants than Blueberries!

Garden Topic	JUNE	JULY
VEGIE PATCH	Add bokashi compost & sow green manure into vacant beds. Watch for winter weeds and lift them out. Add straw or sawdust to paths between beds to reduce muddiness.	Green manure crops should be dug in this month. Plan for your crop-rotation veggie beds - what are you planting in Spring? Try some new varieties - seek them out now.
SOW NOW	Asparagus, Broad beans, Cabbage, Garlic, Herbs, Horseradish,  Onions (inc. potato onions), Parsnip, Peas, Radish,  Rhubarb	Asparagus, Broad Beans, Cabbage, Garlic, Herbs, Horseradish, Lettuce, Parsley, Parsnip, Peas, Potatoes, Radish,  Rhubarb, Turnips
ORCHARD	Apply thick layer of straw around all fruit trees and berry vines to suppress weeds Prune berry plants, removing old vines/canes and tying up new ones. Quickly attend to any unpruned fruit trees. New bare-rooted fruit trees & berry plants can be planted now. Try a multi-grafted specimen, or plant 2 varieties in 1 hole to maximise garden space. Small gardens can still fit a few dwarf varieties.	Plant deciduous fruit trees, grapevines and berryfruit plants & citrus. Consider growing a few varieties of each to extend your harvest over a few months. Feed stonefruit and citrus with blood and bone or old manure now, so that it becomes available to the trees when they re-enter the growing phase in Spring. Suppress grass and weeds around fruit trees by overlaying with thick cardboard old newspapers and/or straw Plant and mulch between and around berryfruit plants (blueberry, strawberry, currants, jostaberry, kiwifruit, gojiberry & berry canes).
ORGANIC PEST CONTROL	Seek out and prune off any citrus branches affected by citrus gall wasp.  Prunings must be burnt or wrapped in plastic and put in the rubbish bin.	Seek out and prune off any citrus branches affected by citrus gall  wasp. Prunings must be burnt or wrapped tightly in plastic and put in the rubbish bin. When pruning roses, ensure all prunings are removed from the site. Black Spot and Anthracnose (fungal diseases) can over-winter in fallen leaves.