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Garden Calender
 
 This is what I do in my garden each month.
 
Gardening in Las Vegas offers the opportunity to harvest all year.
 
I harvest the following things all year round:
Swiss Chard, green onions, rosemary, lavender, thyme and parsley
 
For a complete list of all the fruits and vegetables that I grow in my garden, please click here.
 
  
 
Here's what I am now harvesting:
 
 
 
 

 Plant

Garden Chores

 Harvest

 January

Turnips

Lettuce

Carrots

Radishes

Spinach

 

Fertilize Asparagus  

Prune Fruit Trees

Fertilize Fruit Trees

Turnips

Lettuce

Spinach

Swiss Chard

February

Swiss Chard

Tomato plants (after Valentine's Day) 

Borage

Fertilize Roses

Spinach

Turnips

Sugar Snap Peas

Cilantro 

March

 Tomato Plants

Pepper Plants

Green Beans (seeds or plants)

Radishes

 

 Fertilize Grass

Lettuce 

Spinach

Sugar Snap Peas

Turnips

April

Basil

Butternut Squash

Radishes

Zucchini

 

 Fertilize Grass

Thin grapes

Thin fruit trees

Artichokes

Asparagus

Carrots

Lettuce 

Radishes

Sugar Snap Peas

Spinach

Turnips

Borage

May

Pumpkins 

 Fertilize Fruit Trees

Fertilize Grass

Artichokes

Asparagus

Blackberries

Chamomile

Tomatoes 

Lettuce

Spinach

Borage

Carrots

Parsnips

Cherries

Desert Gold Peaches

June

 Green Beans

 Fertilize Grass

Royal Apricots

Blackberries

Green Gage Plums

Mission Figs

Swiss Chard 

Tomatoes

Basil

Dorsett Golden Apples

July

n/a 

 Fertilize Grass

 

Cut back dead blackberry bushes

 

Tomatoes 

Zuchinni

Grapes

Apples

Early Elberta Peaches

Cucumbers

Basil

August

n/a 

 Ferilize Grass

20th Century Asian Pears

Butternut Squash

Zuchinni 

Mission Figs

Tomatoes

Basil

September

When the temperature

cools down at the

end of the month:

Lettuce

Radishes

Swiss Chard 

Spinach

Carrots

Artichokes (from seed)

Borage

Chamomile

Fertilize Fruit Trees

Fertilize Grass

Butternut Squash

Pumpkins 

Tomatoes

Zuchinni

Basil

October

Carrots

Cilantro

Sugar Snap Peas

Turnips 

Lettuce

Spinach

Broccoli

 

 Fertililize Grass

 

Pomegranates

Butternut Squash

Lettuce

Radishes 

Basil

November

 Sugar Snap Peas

Lettuce

Turnips

Spinach

Radishes

 Fertilize Grass

 Lemons

Spinach

Lettuce 

Basil

December

Turnips 

Cut back dead asparagus 

Prune roses

Tear out dead tomatoes, basil, vincas, squash plants

Prune grapes

Lemons

Spinach

Lettuce

Turnips

Algerian Tangerines