Vegetables
Sowing, spacing, feeding, pollination and harvest for the kitchen garden, crop by crop.
Articles tagged Warm Season Crops. All vegetables
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- How to Grow Capsicums and ChilliesCapsicums and chillies from seed Capsicums and chillies are close relatives grown for different ends, and they want the same things: warm...Companion Planting
- How to Grow Cucumbers in Australia: Trellises, Pollination and Fruit That Is Never BitterA cucumber grown up a trellis is cleaner, straighter and easier to pick than one sprawled on the ground. How to sow, train, water and har...Growing from Seed
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- How to Grow Eggplant from Seed in AustraliaCovering several aspect of growing eggplant to get started if you’re looking to add this amazing plant to your garden. Growing from Seed
- A Comprehensive Guide on Growing Egyptian SpinachWhat Egyptian spinach is Corchorus olitorius answers to many names: Egyptian spinach, molokhia, mulukhiyah, jute mallow, saluyot and nalt...Growing from Seed
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- How to Grow Squash and ZucchiniPrepare your garden Put the plant support in the bed before you sow. Most squash can be grown upright, which saves space and keeps the le...Companion Planting
- Summer Crops in a Short, Cool Season: Tasmania, Canberra and the TablelandsLate spring frost and an early autumn leave cool and alpine gardens a short summer. Here is how to count your frost-free weeks, choose qu...Sowing Calendar
- Summer Greens: Leafy Crops That Take the Heat When Spinach BoltsWhen spinach and lettuce bolt in spring, a different set of leafy greens takes over. How to sow, pick and safely cook seven heat-loving g...Leafy greens
- Superhot chillies from seed: getting Carolina Reaper, Scorpion and 7 Pod up and ripeCarolina Reaper and other superhot seed is slow and fussy. Why a tray sits for weeks, the warmth and patience it needs, how to fit a long...Growing from Seed
- How to Grow Sweet Corn in Australia: Block Planting, Pollination and Picking It at Its SweetestSweet 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 rig...Growing from Seed
- How to Grow Sweeter, Less Bitter CucumbersWhy cucumbers turn bitter Planting cucumbers beside sunflowers does not make them sweeter. Bitterness comes from cucurbitacins, natural c...Companion Planting