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• Continue doing the jobs that never got done in October, or are ongoing.
• It’s not too late to plant tomato, cucumber, pepper and kumara plants.
• To keep the Psyllids off potato and tomato plants, there have been great results from covering them with Insect Mesh.
• Over the summer months, remove excessive leaf growth off grapes, cutting back to a bunch of grapes.
• Cover berry fruits with bird netting. Keep well watered and apply fertiliser high in potash.
• As roses flower and dead heads appear, remove them and this keeps bushes flowering through Christmas. Apply more rose fertiliser and water deeply once a week if no rain.
• Sow bean and sweet corn seed. Continue planting lettuce plants, at intervals to have a steady supply over summer.