Garlic is a cool season plant and in the Southern Tablelands region, early season garlic is planted in Autumn generally during March & April.  This means you need to be getting ready to plant. However before we look at soil preparation, you will note that I have referred to early season garlic.Like many types of plants garlic comes in many different cultivars. There are 1,000s of cultivars grown worldwide. In Australia we distinguish different garlics first of all by the group it belon […]

The brief cooler weather interlude, provided a great opportunity to work in the garden.  Planting of course was a priority. We were fortunate to have a week of evening or night rain.  While it was not a lot, a few mm’s every night makes a huge difference, and of course this meant that I did not have to water.Clearing beds and garden clean up was also on the cooler weather agenda.  Weeding is always a regular activity and with the rain and warm weather the weeds are flourish […]

The last few weeks have been exceedingly hot and dry and it would appear that the Bureau of Meteorology Seasonal forecasting is proving correct – warmer than average day time and night time temperatures through to the end of March. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/outlooks/#/overview/videoLet’s hope that the predictions for at least “average” summer rainfall also proves correct.Braidwood generally gets most of its rainfall during spring and summer.  We had very good spring ra […]