vegetable gardening guide

I was watching Gardening Australia the other night when they mentioned their online vegetable planting guide. I popped on over to have a look, and it’s pretty good, so I thought I would share. You can find the guide here at the Gardening Australia website.

If you click on the area on the map where you live, the guide will bring up a list of vegetables appropriate to plant in that month. Select another month if, say, you’re wondering what to plant next month.

From the drop down list, you can then select that vegetable and it will bring up planting and growing information.

The website also has factsheets going back for years on all sorts of things.

Another useful guide is Adam Rees’ Organic Gardening eBook. His book includes information on how to set up an organic vegetable garden in a couple of hours and to grow a steady supply of vegetables year round for less than 2 hours work per week and for little or no money.

There’s a lot of information in this eBook and it’s specifically tailored to Australian growing. I especially like his idea for composting food scraps if you live in an apartment (it’s free and doesn’t involve a Bokashi bin). He also includes plenty of links to further resources. For an idea on the type of information Adam includes in his book, you can sign up for his free six part e-mail course.

Our formula tin garden is very slowly expanding. I’ve planted some parsley as well as the rosemary. I think that they look quite nice there on the fence. Like everything these days, I do a little bit now and then when I get the time. I have plans for spinach and beans and peas – we’ll see how we go.

Have you read these posts?

1. planning and preparing for your next vegetable crop
2. Gardening For Free Part Two – Taking Cuttings
3. Gardening For Free Part One. Seed Saving
4. gardening in an urban landscape
5. Gardening For Free Part 3 – Getting Dirty