![]() ![]() No vegie patch? Not a problem! Yates Spinach Winter Queen can also be grown in pots. The beauty of loose leafy vegies like spinach is that you can harvest individual leaves as you need them. Seeds will take 1 – 3 weeks to germinate (so don’t give up on them too quickly!) and you can be harvesting leaves in as little as 8 – 10 weeks. It can be sown throughout New Zealand in June and it’s as easy as sowing a few seeds in a clump, direct where they are to grow in a sunny spot in the vegie garden. Yates Spinach Winter Queen is a tasty, prolific and early maturing spinach variety with large deep green leaves. Spinach is also a good source of vitamins, fibre and protein, so Popeye was one smart cartoon character to love this leafy green so much! Spinach is laden with fantastic antioxidants and is high in health benefitting carotenoids (though you can’t see them as they’re masked by spinach’s high chlorophyll content). Keep picking pods regularly too, which helps prolong the harvest. To encourage a great harvest, as soon as the seedlings are established start feeding each week with Yates Thrive Flower Fruit Soluble Fertiliser, which is boosted with extra potassium which promotes flowering and pod development.Snow and sugar snap peas are prolific croppers, so you should have lots of tasty peas for several months.Seedlings should pop up in around 10 days and you can start harvesting in around 8 – 10 weeks.Don’t water again for a few days as pea seeds can rot if they’re too wet.Sow seeds direct where they are to grow, beside a trellis or support, into damp soil that’s been enriched first with some Yates Dynamic Lifter Organic Plant Food.Both snow and sugar snap peas should be sown in a spot that receives at least 6 hours of sunshine a day.Shelling peas is a fun activity for kids and the little peas inside are delicious. Yates Peas Sugarsnap Dwarf have juicy, sweet flavour packed pods that can be eaten whole when young or shelled when mature. Kids love snow peas too and a small handful in their school lunchbox is an easy way to add more vegies into their diet. ![]() Yates Chinese Snow Peas Climbing produce crisp, sweet pods that can be eaten whole (they’re a terrific in-garden snack), steamed, used fresh in salads or added to stir fries. They’re also great for growing in pots, so you can grow climbing peas on a sunny veranda, courtyard or balcony. They can be grown along a trellis on a fence or up a tepee or tripod, taking up minimal horizontal space. Whether you like the crunch of delicious snow peas or the sweet little peas inside sugar snap pea pods, June is the perfect time to get your pea patch started.Ĭlimbing peas like snow and sugar snap peas are the ultimate space saver vegies. Yates Top Weight Carrots will mature in 16 – 20 weeks after sowing, however you can harvest some smaller tender young carrots before then.Side dress carrots with Yates Dynamic Lifter Organic Plant Food every 6 – 8 weeks to provide gentle, organic slow release nutrients.Seedlings will need to be thinned out when they’re 4 weeks old, to give all the plants enough room to grow.Seeds may take up to 3 weeks to germinate, so be patient! You must check under the cover every day and as soon as the first few seedlings emerge, remove the cover. To help keep the soil moist, in addition to regular watering you can cover the area with shade cloth, damp hessian or cardboard. Lack of moisture, even for a short time, can mean the end for the germinating seeds. Sow the seed 6 mm deep and then it’s crucial to keep the area moist until the seeds germinate and begin to establish.Before sowing, dig around in the soil really well to break up any clumps and hard pieces. Carrots need soft and loose soil, otherwise they won’t grow nice and straight.Grow carrots in a sunny garden bed that receives at least 6 hours of sunshine a day.Yates Carrot Topweight are perfect for sowing all around New Zealand in June. The seeds are small and not sown very deeply, making them very prone to drying out.Ĭooler weather during winter can help keep the soil moist for longer, allowing the tiny seeds to germinate and establish. Growing carrots can sometimes be challenging, particularly during warm seasons. Our bodies convert this beta-carotene into vitamin A, which is a fantastic vitamin for promoting eye health. Carrots are a great source of vitamins and minerals and contain beta-carotene, which is the orange pigment that helps make carrots orange. ![]()
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