About This Book

Tropical growing does not keep to the calendar on the wall. In Cairns, Townsville, Darwin and Broome, the wet and the dry arrive when they like, and the seed packet rarely knows it. Garden Year 2027: Tropical is a working planner built for that reality. Each month sets out the climate, what to sow, what to transplant and what to harvest, with moon phases, traditional moon-planting guidance and sunrise and sunset times beside them.

The second half of the book holds a growing page for each crop, covering vegetables, herbs, fruit and others suited to the Tropical zone. Every page gives planting timing, sunlight, spacing, watering, soil requirements, suggested varieties, companion plants, common pests and diseases, and expected yield. Each one also has room for your own results, so the advice and what actually happened in your patch sit together where you can compare them.

A Record of Your Own Patch

Weekly garden records, seed tray tracking and space for notes turn the planner into a garden journal. Write in it, take it into the shed, and let the soil get on the pages. By the end of the year you have a record of your own ground. At year’s end, compare your rainfall and temperatures with the Tropical zone averages, total your harvests and note which crops earned their place. Then plan what you will grow differently next year.

What Comes With It

The edition is full colour inside and runs to 284 pages in A5 paperback. Your order also includes 12 months of GardenBuddy.au Starter, normally $29 a year. Claim it on the site with your order number. Already on a paid plan? You receive a gift code to pass on to someone else.

Details

Format: A5 paperback, 284 pages, full colour inside
Edition: Garden Year 2027, Tropical zone
Monthly planning: climate information, planting and harvesting lists, moon phases, moon-planting guidance, sunrise and sunset times
Records: weekly garden records, seed tray tracking, space for notes
Crop pages: vegetables, herbs, fruit and other crops, with timing, sunlight, spacing, watering, soil, varieties, companion plants, pests, diseases and yield
Year-end review: rainfall and temperatures against Tropical zone averages, harvest totals and a crop review
Included: 12 months of GardenBuddy.au Starter, normally $29 a year

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