Gardening In Perth In November
The hot weather is definitely upon us with a few showers in between and there is lots to do in the Perth garden during November.
Vegies to plant in November include – beetroot, capsicum, cucumber, pumpkin, lettuce, sweet corn, tomato, zucchini, radish, spinach and spring onion.
Flowers to plant in November include – alyssum, marigolds, petunia, portulaca, sunflower, salvia, calendula, lobelia and impatiens.
November is a great time to attend to the following tasks in the Perth garden:
- Plant fast growing leafy green every 6 weeks for continuous cropping
- Lift and divide chive clumps to increase stock
- Tip prune Passionfruit to promote flowers and fruit that form on new growth
- Trim daisies to remove old flowers
- Dress roses with a 5cm layer of well rotted cow or chook manure to feed and condition the soil for summer growth
- Prune old or tatty canna stems to ground level
- Dead head roses so they put their energy into producing new blooms
- When there are just 4 or 5 green leaves left on the stem, your garlic is ready to be dug up
- Harvest sweetcorn when the silks are brown and the kernels seem plump and emit a milky fluid when squeezed
- Plant silverbeet and rainbow chard as a gap filler, even in your ornamental garden
- Fluctuations in soil moisture can cause root vegetables and fruit to split
- Eat sweetcorn fresh before the sugars turn to starch
- Remove fruit from newly planted custard apple, avocado, mango and citrus. They need at least 2 years to establish strong roots and branches for crops
- Sweet potato loves the heat. Buy a tuber and plant it. Trim off the runners into 20cm lengths and plant the cuttings
Enjoy your time in your Perth garden in November.
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