Tropical Zone - May

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This is a good month for planting citrus. The leaves of kaffir lime add a special flavour to Asian dishes.

Chinese Cabbage - A versatile salad vegetable. Firm, upright heads provide tasty leaves like lettuce and stalks like celery.Choose a sunny, well-drained position.

Transplant runners (sideways-growing pieces with some roots) from couch, kikuyu or durban (sweet smother) grass lawns to fill bare patches.

Fertilise vegetable seedlings with Dynamic Lifter Organic Plant Food.

Prevent rats from eating newly-sown seeds, young plants and seedheads by laying ratbaits.