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Vegetables that thrive in the Subtropical Climate

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What we're sowing now in our subtropical vegetable garden

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Lettuce ‘Oakleaf Green’
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Bush Bean ‘Cherokee Wax’
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Beetroot ‘Chioggia’
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What to plant this month?

Grab my free printable seed sowing guide with a list of fruits and veggies to plant this month plus you'll get weekly reminders & loads of tips and tricks for the subtropical veggie patch.

First zucchini of the season, no mildew in sight… yet. Also a PSA remember zucchinis get huge so don’t plant them too close.

I risked bean fly this year without a cover. I los

I risked bean fly this year without a cover. I lost half the plants but the royal burgundy survived, lucky because it’s my favourite.

Much love for the Marvel of four seasons lettuce 🥰 better start making some salads 🥗

Our dill flowers are little ladybug nurseries 🐞

Our dill flowers are little ladybug nurseries 🐞

🌻 I really need to do another hedge of sunflowe

🌻 I really need to do another hedge of sunflowers 🌻

Pink beauty radish flowers 😍

Pink beauty radish flowers 😍

We’re slowly getting better at this. Almost a do

We’re slowly getting better at this. Almost a dozen potatoes from 2 seeds. And I didn’t feed this soil, it was literally a left over pot that I chucked the seeds in because I was really sick at the time. This is our June experiment. We’ve also got July, August and September to go. I was going to leave longer but I needed to misdirect Mr destructo so harvesting potatoes was the task 🥔

I was hoping this self sown tomato was a cherry to

I was hoping this self sown tomato was a cherry tomato as I don’t like to grow the big ones this time of year as it’s an ongoing battle with fruit fly. It’s doing really well so I’ve decided to deal with it and just use the exclusion nets 🤞🤞🤞 🍅🍅🍅

Ready for spring, sort of.

Ready for spring, sort of.

Our glenlarge Garlic will be harvested soon 🙌 I

Our glenlarge Garlic will be harvested soon 🙌 I harvest when half the leaves start to die back, I’ve found if you wait until they completely dry out the outer cloves start popping off. Last year we did it around now and I think it will be the end of this week they’ll come out. FYI these are short day varieties so harvest is earlier than a lot of common ones where harvest is normally November.