Vegetable Planting Calendar
The Eastern Field's Vegetable Planting Calendar is a simple and clear guide designed to help home gardeners successfully grow a year-round abundant garden by illustrating the ideal times for sowing, planting, and harvesting common vegetable crops throughout the entire year.
The Eastern Field's Vegetable Planting Calendar is a simple and clear guide designed to help home gardeners successfully grow a year-round abundant garden by illustrating the ideal times for sowing, planting, and harvesting common vegetable crops throughout the entire year.
The Eastern Field's Vegetable Planting Calendar is a simple and clear guide designed to help home gardeners successfully grow a year-round abundant garden by illustrating the ideal times for sowing, planting, and harvesting common vegetable crops throughout the entire year.
Product Description
Make growing more manageable and perfect your timing of essential garden tasks by using the Eastern Field's Vegetable Planting Calendar. This easy-to-read and informative resource provides you with the knowledge necessary to confidently cultivate your crops from seed to harvest.
This Calendar has been carefully created by analysing the optimal growing temperatures of various vegetable crops and aligning them with the historical temperatures of each climate zone to determine their ideal growing periods for successful cultivation across all seasons.
The Vegetable Planting Calendar is designed to help home gardeners:
Optimise planting times: by cultivating crops within their preferred growth time-frames
Maximise yields & minimise losses: by catering to each plant's specific environmental requirements
Enhance productivity: by refining the scheduling and planning of key gardening activities throughout the year
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Climate zone map: illustrates the geographical areas relevant to the calendar to ensure greater accuracy of information
Colour code system: presents the gardening activities in colour blocks for ease of reading and comprehension
Sunshine and frost icons: indicates the months in which temperature fluctuations are forecasted to occur
Crop list: highlights the various vegetable crops that are commonly grown throughout New Zealand
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Dimensions: A3 paper size (29.7cm x 42cm)
Materials: Laminated card for indoor and outdoor use
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This calendar can be used to identify the optimal timing for gardening activities, whether for the current month or for planning and scheduling future garden tasks.
New Zealand is divided into three climate zones - subtropical, temperate, and cool mountain. Determine your climate zone based on your location.
Subtropical: Auckland and all of Northland
Temperate: North Island - Hamilton, Tauranga, Whakatāne, Gisborne, Napier, Hastings, Whanganui, and New Plymouth. South Island - Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Haast, Greymouth, and Westport.
Cool mountain: North Island - Rotorua, Taupō, Palmerston North, and Wellington. South Island - Queenstown and all Central mountainous areas.
The calendar features a user-friendly colour-coded system, where each colour represents a specific action: sowing seeds indoors, transplanting into the garden, directly sowing into the garden, or harvesting crops. Use these colours in conjunction with the list of vegetables and months of the year to determine when exactly to carry out each activity.
Included on the calendar is a sunshine and frost guide that illustrates expected temperature variations over the year, based on the average first and last frost dates relevant to your climate zone. The smaller icons represent minor fluctuations, while the larger icons indicate more significant changes.
Please note that this planting calendar should be used as a general guide for home gardeners and may vary depending on plant varieties and environmental conditions.
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Sow Seed Indoors
Sowing seeds indoors refers to the propagation of seeds within a controlled environment, such as a greenhouse or another protected space where they can be closely monitored and tended to before being transplanted into the garden.
Transplant into Garden
Transplanting into the garden is the action of planting mature seedlings into the garden area, whether they have been self-propagated or acquired from another source.
Direct Sow into Garden
Direct sowing is a method of propagation where the seeds are sown straight into the garden, allowing them to grow and mature entirely outdoors without the need for indoor cultivation and seedling transplantation. Certain seeds, such as root crops and larger-seeded plants, often prefer this approach over indoor sowing.
Harvest Crops
Harvesting crops refers to the expected time frame of harvest for each vegetable, determined by the time in which they have either been sown or planted into the garden.
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