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Planting in USA - Zone 4b regions

Planting in August - Gardenate

Cabbage Start undercover in seed trays and plant out in 4-6 weeks
Garlic Plant cloves
Radish Sow seed
Rocket (also Arugula/Rucola) Sow seed
Spinach (also English spinach) Sow seed
Turnip Sow seed

Planning for September

Angelica Sow seed
Cabbage Plant out (transplant) seedlings or sow seed
Garlic Plant cloves

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Recent Comments

  • 19 Jan - Celeste Archer
    In addition to my reply below - I should mention - you can plant more than one corn plant on a mound ( and probably should). IT DEPENDS on how big your mound is...three might be good...5 might be...
    in Beans - climbing
  • 18 Jan - Celeste Archer
    Since I'm from North America, my answer is a "canned/typical" answer. MANY people use the 3 sisters planting here -- -- The "Three Sisters" planting method is a traditional Indigenous compa...
    in Beans - climbing
  • 14 Jan -
    probably hardneck
    in Garlic
  • 14 Jan -
    Gardinate should update their Garlic listing to have two types. Hardneck and soft neck. Because although hardneck may not grow well in zones 9a and up, soft neck will do just fine in 9 zones. Gilr...
    in Garlic
  • 14 Jan -
    Yep! Softneck garlic grows perfectly fine in zone 9b for me. I mean we are pretty close to Gilroy which is like the Garlic capital of the US. So...
    in Garlic
  • 02 Jan -
    Corn should be planted about 150mm apart in rows about 500-600mm apart. Corn grows to 1.2-1.8m high so will shade most other plants most of the day. Also it is best to hill the soil up around the ...
    in Beans - climbing
  • 02 Jan -
    I have found Sept to be the best time to plant - Bundaberg - little pests. When plants about 30cm high hill the soil up around the plants - get a better root system and supports the plant. Can als...
    in Beans - dwarf

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See planting calendar for these countries and climate zones

USA - Zone 2a,   USA - Zone 2b,   USA - Zone 3a,   USA - Zone 3b,   USA - Zone 4a,   USA - Zone 4b,   USA - Zone 5a,   USA - Zone 5b,   USA - Zone 6a,   USA - Zone 6b,   USA - Zone 7a,   USA - Zone 7b,   USA - Zone 8b,   USA - Zone 8a,   USA - Zone 9a,   USA - Zone 9b,   USA - Zone 10a,   USA - Zone 10b,   USA - Zone 11a,   USA - Zone 11b,   USA - Zone 12a,   USA - Zone 12b,   USA - Zone 13a,   USA - Zone 13b  

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