Vegetables

Melons are not hard, they are just fussy about heat and water at the end. How to sow rockmelon and honeydew, how many fruit to leave on a vine and how to pick at peak sweetness.

A cucumber grown up a trellis is cleaner, straighter and easier to pick than one sprawled on the ground. How to sow, train, water and harvest cucumbers in an Australian summer.

Beans are the fastest return in the summer garden, as long as the soil is warm and you keep picking. The differences between bush, climbing and runner types, and how to grow each one.

Sweet corn is wind pollinated, so a short fat block beats a long thin row every time. Here is how to sow it, feed it, water it at the right moment and pick every cob at its sweetest.

A zucchini covered in flowers but no fruit is usually a timing or pollination issue, not a sick plant. Here is how to tell what is wrong and fix it.

Capsicums reward patience: a long warm season, an early start from seed, steady water and the right feed. Here is how to grow them across Australia.

Chillies are easy and rewarding to grow. Here is how the Scoville heat scale works, which varieties to choose, how to grow them, and how to use the harvest.

Pumpkins reward a long warm season and room to roam. When to plant, how much space they need, how to fix pollination, and how to cure them for storage.