Planting Information > What to do When > May

According to the Antipodean Astro Planting Calendar for May:

Wednesday 5th good for Leaf vegetables.

Tuesday 18th Flowering Vegetables.

Monday 24th Good for Fruiting Vegetables.

For the 2004 calendar contact: Brian Keats PO Box 1560 Bowal NSW 2576 (price: $14.00)

Fruit

Custard Apple: Peak harvest period. Harvest every 3 to 7 days. Watering can be tapered off.

Figs: Figs are only produced on new wood of the new seasons growth. Mulch well.

Lychee: Don't let trees dry out. Check for Erinose mite and spray with wettable sulphur.

Low chill stone fruit: Fertilise trees with 50 grams of Organic extra per square metre to the drip line of trees. Low water needs now as trees begin to defoliate.

Mango: Apply gypsum if soil pH is 6 or more, if below 6 pH apply lime, 50 grams per square metre of either. Continue with copper based spray for anthracnose.

Passion fruit: The water can be tapered off, harvest fruit every 314 days under vines.

Pawpaw: If you have not applied boron, now, 1 teaspoon per tree. 40% of annual organic extra can be applied (e.g. 20 grams per square metre).

Persimmon: Main harvest time. Decline water needs. Apply a little dolomite and gypsum 20 grams per square metre.

Strawberries: Plants should be coming away well a little Organic Extra can be applied now. Use fish and kelp regularly over plants to keep in good health.

Companion Plants

Coriander: It repels aphid, black fly, cabbage moth and worm. It is a good companion to cabbage and carrots.

Dill: Repels cabbage moth. Good with cabbage, celery and all types of tomato.

Fennel: Repels fleas so put it on your pets bedding. Don't grow near beans, kohlrabi or tomatoes.

Garlic: Plant near apple and peach trees, lettuce, parsnips, roses. Keep it away from beans, cabbage and strawberries. Use it for earache, abscess and ringworm. All internal and external infections, high blood pressure and cholesterol.

Companion plant cucumbers with basil, bean, borage, brassicas, carrot, corn, dill, lettuce, nasturtium, parsnip, peas, radish, sunflower, tansy. Not with potatoes or sage.