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The weather might still be hot, but February is a good month to start planting your winter vegies like carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, Brussels sprouts, parsnips and parsley.
Tropical areas are ready for planting leeks, chilies, cabbage, silverbeet, lettuce, sweet corn, tomatoes, mangoes, bananas and pineapple. You can brighten up your garden, and attract helpful insects, by planting marigolds and sunflowers.
In sub-tropical areas, you can plant beans, capsicum, carrots, chilies, cucumbers, lettuce and zucchinis in your vegie patch. Sunflowers are also good to add a splash of colour.
In temperate climates, it’s also time for winter vegies like beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, leeks, lettuce and parsley. Companion plants like nasturtiums, verbena, petunias and marigolds add colour and attract insects, keeping them away from your vegies.
In colder regions, it’s mostly about vegies. Start planting, beetroot, broccoli, Asian greens, carrots, cauliflower, leeks, lettuce, onions, silverbeet and parsley. For that burst of colour, look for stocks, violas, pansy, dianthus, verbena and ageratum.
Check out Garden Corner on the Bunnings website for planting advice tailored to your area and climate.
What are you planting in your garden this month?
Jason
Hi @Jason @mich1972 @Remarka6le @tetris36 @Kellie
Rats! Literally. Oh the joys of growing fresh fruit and veggies in your backyard, the critters love them too! So I’ve stripped my tomatoes, and fruit trees, so I’m making pasatta and lots of it. It’s been an average season for producing, my tomatoes are great, my cucumber plants ended up in the compost bin! The weather has been very mild but February is going to be hot. So mulching and wettasoil is my friend. Starting to get some cover crops in, and a few seeds to be germinated for winter crops, have you seen the price of broccoli 😳
ANY suggestions for the rats??
Cheers Leanne
It's great to hear that you're both making the most of what hasn't been an optimum growing season. Hopefully, you both see significant crops despite the challenges.
I had a wonderful crop of tomatoes last year, devastated over a couple of days by those little green caterpillars, which sucked my enthusiasm out for this year. I've skipped the season this year but look forward to returning to it next year.
Many thanks for the updates.
Mitchell
Hi Leanne (@Grub80)
You might get some handy tips from our article How do you deter rats in the garden?
What have you tried so far?
Jason
Hi @Jason I’ve tried the pre baited boxes (bought from Bunnings of course!) and have readied the Stinkin rats love my fruit and tomatoes and strawberries and figs……. I could go on 😂😂
I have realised that this year and put up a small fence to keep my dogs out of my flower bed, so I might remove a panel and let the great white hunters do their thing.
And we are going through another heatwave this week in Perth with with another three days of over 40 degrees. I have NOT planted anything , just trying to keep everything alive at the the moment. One pest to look out for and it is causing a lot of trouble is Armyworm. They are terrible and thrive in the summer and humid conditions. I pull them off and stomp on them !!! It’s way too hot to be spraying any insecticides - chemical or organic based.
I have my rat problem under control now that I have been using Ratshot Grain Bait. It’s brilliant and truly works great. I have it hidden along the fence’s and wall. It causes no secondary poisoning to other animals that may eat a dead rat. I know it may upset some people BUT it needs to be done. We have chickens and grow edibles so of course we have Rats. I have my rubber snakes hanging up everywhere in the Passionfruit as a deterrent. I also have our chicken feed in a bucket with holes so there is no food for the rats . But they will eat anything unfortunately.
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