Grow & sow
Now is the perfect time to plant delicious and hearty cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower. Sow beetroot, broad beans, coriander, celery, lettuce, parsnips, snow and sugar snaps peas, silverbeet, spring onionsons and turnips in all but the coldest districts. Highly nutritious and simple to grow is reason enough for just about every garden to contain silverbeet.
Although it’s generally undemanding, it willl do you proud in soil with compost, blood and bone, lime, sheep pellets and the like added beforehand. Let one plant go to seed each year and you may never have to buy more.
Bloomin’ lovely
Plant seedlings of ornamental annuals and perennials for winter colour. In warmer areas, try lobelia, snapdragons, cornflowers and calendula. In frost-prone cooler zones, bellis (English
