Description
Seasonal planting plan
This seasonal planting plan offers monthly advice on what to do in your garden for year round harvesting. Based on Bridget’s Timely Garden Advice vlog this guide includes what and when to plant, harvest and fertilise as well as essential garden activities. Each month includes the energetic theme of the season.
What is in the planner?
The planner is divided into calendar months and lists crops to direct sow, plant into pots, transplant and harvest. It includes garden tasks like fruit tree pruning, compost production and making liquid fertilisers. For those new to the terms used in the guide there is a garden terminology section at the back.
How do I use the planner?
The planer is a pdf file to be printed for use. When planning your garden tasks, turn to the month in question to see what to do right now.
Staying on top of garden tasks can be overwhelming. Use this guide to keep yourself on track. There is space once printed to add your own seasonal tasks specific to your micro-climate and situation.
Full disclaimer, this guide will not replace adequate garden planning nor will it offer self-control over sowing too much seed. So try to only sow seed for the size in your garden. Of course you can always give away extra plants, though more often than not less is more. When you have acquired self-control around seed sowing, come and share your strategy with me!
Is the planner suitable for my region?
There may be seasonal differences depending on the climate that you live in. The planting times included in this guide can be used all over NZ however are most suitable for the warmer, temperate parts of NZ or to those who use a cloche system. The guide includes directions for those who have access to a glasshouse or warm growing space.
About the author
Bridget Scully has been working with nature to create ecological balance in her food gardens for over a decade. While studying Sustainable Horticulture and Permaculture Design, her mentor Nathan Foote installed a solid foundation in organic methods of creating productivity. This included “do nothing” gardening by natural farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, the Grow biointensive method by John Jeavons, and Permaculture Design by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren. After a one-year intensive with Nathan, Bridget deepened her practice in regenerative horticulture with Kay Baxter at the Koanga Institute. Bridget spent 8 months fully immersed in building both community and sustainable food and seed production gardens from the ground up. It was at Koanga that she completed her PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate). Fast track 12 years and Bridget has helped many clients create the ecological garden of their dreams through her design work, mentoring and and workshops. In 2020 after years of searching, Bridget and her family became kaitiaki of an 1/2 acre urban property with clay soil in Gisborne. They are currently developing a sustainable foodscape and animal forage system using Permaculture Design and a strong alliance with Nature. You can follow Bridget on instagram @_nurtureearth.