The following planting guide is an abbreviated list for vegetables, fruit trees and some culinary herbs that can be planted in June in Australia and New Zealand. A comprehensive monthly guide that includes planting times for the entire garden, as well as when to fertilise, prune, weed, take cuttings or divide plants, can be found in my book Easy Organic Gardening and Moon Planting.
WARM CLIMATE – South of Rockhampton
Before the Full Moon, grains can be sown directly into beds, as well as a green manure crop of red clover. Cabbage and spring onions can be sown. Lettuce and silverbeet can be sown in a cold frame.
During First Quarter phase, tomatoes can be sown in a cold frame.
During Full Moon phase, Jerusalem artichokes, radish and turnip can be sown directly into beds, as well as potatoes in Brisbane and areas south. Beetroot can be sown in a cold frame. Asparagus and rhubarb crowns, fig, pistachio and other deciduous trees and vines can be planted.
WARM CLIMATE – Rockhampton northwards
Before the Full Moon, open Chinese cabbage, grains, lettuce, mizuna, rocket, silver beet, tatsoi, chamomile, coriander and sunflower can be sown directly into beds, as well as a green manure crop of lablab or corn.
During First Quarter phase, bush and climbing beans, popcorn and sweet corn can be sown directly into beds, and pumpkin, spring onion, summer squash, tomato, watermelon and zucchini can be sown or planted out. Capsicum and eggplant can be sown in a cold frame.
During Full Moon phase, beetroot, radish, turnip can be sown directly into beds, and avocado, banana, fig and pistachio can be planted.
TEMPERATE CLIMATE
Before the Full Moon, a green manure crop of broad bean (faba bean) or field pea can be sown. In a cold frame, sow celery and lettuce. In frost-free areas, suitable lettuce and spring onions can also be sown or planted out. English spinach can be sown directly into beds in colder areas.
During First Quarter phase, dwarf broad beans and peas can be sown directly into beds. Sowing peas and broad beans
During Full Moon phase, Jerusalem artichokes, garlic, potatoes and radish can be sown directly into beds, and mid season onion seedlings, asparagus and rhubarb crowns, kiwifruit, pistachio and other deciduous trees and vines can be planted. In frost-free areas, fig can be planted.
COOL CLIMATE
Before the Full Moon, English spinach can be sown directly into beds, as well as a green manure crop of broad bean (faba bean) or field pea.
During First Quarter phase, dwarf broad beans and peas can be sown directly into garden beds (see link above to the post on when to sow Broad beans and peas for your local climate).
During Full Moon phase, late season onions can be sown, and asparagus and rhubarb crowns, deciduous fruit trees and vines can be planted where frosts are not severe. In cold areas that receive winter rain, it is better to delay sowing potatoes until August.
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Jennifer
08|Jul|2010 1I have really enjoyed your book & have just started getting into gardening. I have just purchased my very first bare rooted fruit trees and wanted to plant them this month (July). By the moon calendar it shows that good planting days are the 12th & 17th. Is this correct?
No, Jennifer. I don’t know where you got those dates from. Perennials (including fruit trees) are best planted during Full Moon phase – but not on the day the phase changes. In July this year, the best times for planting fruit trees is from the 27th to the 31st of July, with the very best days being the 29th and 30th (see page 453).- Lyn
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13|Jul|2010 2Wow!!! I loved you post about growing in July. This is very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Brie
16|Jul|2010 3Hi, I want to get some chilli seeds going (inside where it’s warm). Is now a good time of the month to get the seeds in? If not when is the best time?
Thanks… And I love your site!(I have my bare rooted trees on order for the 30th!!)
Brie, you can sow your chilli seeds after 8:10 am on 19th July to all day on 25th, although you will have to keep them warm for quite some time unless you live in a warm climate zone, as chillis like warm soil to grow in. – Lyn
Steve
22|Jul|2010 4I live in Darwin. I take it that planting capsicum seeds duering the 19th-25th July applies as chillies for that piriod of moon phase?
Spot on, Steve! You are absolutely correct. They are basically variations of the same plant.– Lyn
Steve
24|Jul|2010 5Hi Lyn
When you say avocado can be planted on the full moon, is that the seed or plant? I have 3 avacodo seedlings I’ve growen from seed and a few seeds waiting to plant. Which does it refure to? I’m reading it as seedlings, just making sure. – cheers steve
Hi Steve, it means both (and also grafted plants). Perennials have a different type of root system from annuals and establishing good root growth is important for the health of these plants. That’s why they are sown and planted out during the same phase as root crops. The Full Moon is on the 26th this month but you don’t sow anything 12 hours before or after the time of the change of phase. Check the Moon Planting panel on the right side of the home page for suitable sowing and planting dates during this Full Moon phase. – Lyn
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