We are so blessed to have had such a wonderful Wisdom Keeper in the past who volunteered her time to nurture our community gardens, Sue Anderson! She is still with us in spirit. She developed this comprehensive guide for our Community Gardens that can be used in your garden too and can be followed every month.
Thanks Sue!!

If you haven’t heard of Moon Planting then click HERE to learn the basics. You can view or download her Moon Phase Planting calendar below!

Sue’s Perpetual Gardening Calender.
The monthly jobs and moon plantings stay the same each year. The Moon calendar dates reflect the current year.

Jobs to do in SEPTEMBER!

o Compost – keep compost piles damp and turn often

o Fertilize – feed established bananas

o Fertilize – foliar feed citrus with sulphate of potash, magnesium and boron

o Fertilize – apply seaweed tea to passionfruit, pistachio, tropical & cherry guava

o Fertilize – apply fertilizer tea to young rhubarb, asparagus, young passionfruit, melons, cabbage, leek, lettuce, silverbeet

o Fertilize – feed tomatoes with magnesium (Epsom salts) 1 tablespoon Epsom salts to 9 litres of water

o Fertilize – feed paw paws with 1(ONLY) teaspoon of boron (borax) to 9 litres of water and water in well for strong cell walls and calcium uptake

o Plant – plant berry canes

o Pests – watch for fruit fly on tomatoes and capsicums and cover with exclusion bags

o Pests – watch out for bronze orange citrus bug and spray with natural pyrethrum or knock off into a bucket of soapy water

o Pests – spray citrus with horticultural oil to disrupt wasps laying eggs

o Pests – check garlic for rust just before harvest and spray with bi-carb soda solution

o Prune – lightly prune mature fig and passionfruit

o Water – water fruit trees deeply once fruit appears

o Soil – Turn in green manure crop ready for new seasons planting