April in the GV area means getting in quick crops before the frost and planting the more hardy winter veg. Carrot, garlic, cauliflower, spinach,silverbeet, kale,endive spring onions,leeks, parsnip, seedlings of broccoli, cabbage and if your quick or have a warm sunny spot some Asian veges. I'm using foam boxes to get some spring onions going (left).
Get your soil into action! - Get all the little critters and bacteria working for you enrich with compost, grow a green manure; mustard, barley, use watery solutions; compost tea, seaweed solutions. Start applying dolomite to beds destined for onions, leafy veges and spring brassicas, also to drip line of fruit trees. don't apply nitrogen based fertilisers for a fortnight after dolomite application.
Keep an eye on cabbage butterfly, scale on citrus, and birds trying to steal those ripening figs!
Harvest Pumpkins before severe frosts set in and damage stems and leave out to cure.My 3 pumpkins MARINA DE CHI
OGGIA harvested this year, due to space I kept the vine pinched back quite hard. Dark green dimpled skin with dry sweet flesh, quite large and good stems, apparently the Italians choice for pumpkin gnocchi.
OGGIA harvested this year, due to space I kept the vine pinched back quite hard. Dark green dimpled skin with dry sweet flesh, quite large and good stems, apparently the Italians choice for pumpkin gnocchi. 
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