Vegetables

Nearly everyone is told to buy a rhubarb crown. Seed is cheaper and gives you a batch of plants, but the seedlings vary and the first real harvest is further away. Here is the honest trade-off, and how to do it well.

Leeks are a long crop, not a hard one. Here is the autumn sowing, the dibber hole that makes the white shank, and what actually causes a leek to bolt.

Ten unusual vegetables worth a corner of the bed, what they actually are, and the handful that need a sensible boundary in an Australian garden.

Salsify, scorzonera, skirret and friends are no harder than a carrot, just rarely on the shelf. Here is how to grow the unusual roots from seed, and the one to keep contained.

Witloof, sold as Belgian endive, is really forced chicory. Learn the two-stage method, why it is bitter, and when to sow by Australian climate zone.

Asian greens are some of the fastest, most forgiving crops you can grow from seed. Here is how to grow them across Australia, zone by zone, and keep the harvest coming.

A pumpkin or zucchini covered in flowers but no fruit is rarely a sick plant. Here is how cucurbits flower, and how to get yours setting fruit.

One planting of leafy greens, picked a little at a time, can keep cropping for weeks. Here is how cut-and-come-again works and which crops suit it best.

Winter is one of the best growing windows in much of Australia. Here is what to grow by climate zone, when to sow, and how frost shapes the patch.

One planting tuber can become a bed full of vines and a winter's worth of sweet potatoes. Here is the whole season, step by step, for Australian gardens.