- It’s time! Clean your bottles, fire up the spremipomadoro and put those paste tomatoes to good use! You’ll be enjoying the taste of summer right through until next year!
- If you’ve got a native pepper berry, it’s time to harvest and dry the fruit. The leaves are also edible but watch out! They pack a real punch!
- Put indoor plants out to catch some rain for a freshen up but remember to bring them back in before they get burnt.
- Take some time to get your boots ready for the wet weather ahead. Beeswax works on leather and olive oil on rubber gumboots.
- Get your mail orders in now for any unusual plants, as they sell out quickly at this time of year.
- Sow carrots from seed in a shallow ditch. If yours always come up in thick clumps, try thinning the fine seed out by mixing it with sand.
- If your bromeliads have finished flowering, they may start producing offsets, or “pups”. Once they’re big enough they can be divided and reared as new plants!
- While there’s still rain due, keep turning your compost and it will be ready to use in no time.
- Look out for spider mites. They suck sap from tender plants and will leave tell-tale “webs”. They hide on the underside of leaves and hate getting wet so, give them a good blast from with the hose.
- Eggplant should be fruiting heavily now – consider leaving some fruit on the plant to go yellow so you can save the seed.
- Autumn is the perfect time to establish citrus in arid areas, why not try something different, like a pomelo or yuzu?