The Perth year: a maintenance calendar on the Noongar six seasons
The European four-season calendar fits Perth badly. The Noongar six seasons — Birak, Bunuru, Djeran, Makuru, Djilba, Kambarang — describe what actually happens here, and they make a far better maintenance calendar.
Not planted yet — but the plan for it is final
The practical task and the checklist below are exactly what this lesson will teach. What is missing is the written explanation and the curated links, each one fetched and verified before it ships.
In the meantime the checklist is genuinely usable on its own. Take it outside.
Do this on your own block
Field journal entry
Your seasonal calendar
Build a maintenance calendar for your garden across the six seasons: what you water, feed, prune, plant, mulch, check and repair in each. Note the fixed dates that constrain you, including the winter sprinkler ban.
Saved to your workbook
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Checklist
- Every season has watering, feeding, pruning and checking tasks
- Planting tasks fall in the right season for Perth
- The winter sprinkler ban period is planned for
- Calendar is somewhere you will actually look at it