If you are thinking of creating a more sustainable life, one of the things you can do is grow your own food. You don’t even need a large garden to grow Summer staples such as lettuce and tomatoes for a fresh, tasty salad to go with your next barbeque.
Vegetables can be grown in pots and as long as you remember to water and fertilise regularly, you’ll be surprised at what you can produce for the family dinner table.
Here is a guide to what Summer fruit and vegetables to grow:
Sydney and Victoria:
Beans, beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chicory, chilli, Chinese cabbage, cucumber, eggplant, endive, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, okra, parsnip, potato, radish, rhubarb, shallots, silver beet, spring onion, sweet corn, sweet potato and zucchini.
Melbourne and Tasmania:
Beans, beets, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, English spinach, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, nectarines, onion, parsnip, pumpkin, spring squash, spicy peppers, swede, sweet corn, tomato, turnip and zucchini.
Adelaide and Perth:
Apples, apricots, avocadoes, blackberries, blueberries, honeydew melon, loquats, oranges, peaches, plums, raspberries, rhubarb, watermelon, Asian greens, beans, beets, carrots, corn, garlic, leeks, lettuce, spring onions, parsnip, potato and spinach.
SE Queensland and Northern NSW:
Artichoke, beans, celery, Chinese cabbage, cucumber, eggplant, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, kiwifruit, melons, nectarines, okra, onion, peppers, potato, rosella, silver beet, spring onion, squash, sweet corn, sweet potato and tomato.
North Queensland, North Tasmania and WA:
Artichoke, beets, cauliflower, celery, Chinese Cabbage, cucumber, eggplant, lettuce, radish, shallots, spring onion and tomato.
