Winter gardening
JULY
PLANT: Asparagus crowns, early potatoes, shallots, potato onions, long-keeping, salad and spring onion as small seedlings, garlic cloves, rhubarb divisions, Jerusalem and globe artichokes.
AUGUST
PLANT:Certified seed potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, shallots, potato onions, garlic cloves and oca (Oxalis tuberosa). Off-sets (suckers) of globe artichokes (for tasty food and brilliant flowers). Divisions of chives, rhubarb and asparagus crowns. Sturdy young >seedlings of cabbage, cauliflower, celery, broccoli, lettuce, onion and leeks.
SOW: Direct where they are to be grown seed of peas (including delicious snow peas), broad beans, turnips, swedes, Asian brassicas, English spinach and onions. In warm, well-drained soil or containers, sow silverbeet, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and lettuce seeds.
