Coriander is one of the easiest herbs to grow. The key to continuous harvest is timing your sowings. Read more as we breakdown our coriander plantings throughout the year.

Here are vegetable crops to sow in mid/late summer for harvest autumn through winter. While the quick greens like bok choy and gem lettuce can be sown through April, many of these need to reach maturity before the days are shorter then 10 hours and frost settles in - if you live in Southern Victoria and would like to harvest carrots all Winter, do not delay!

When summer is hot, the perfect accompaniment to any meal is a juicy succulent salad. Lettuce loves the coolness of Spring and Autumn so here in Southern Victoria, the long days and sometimes high temperatures of Summer can make head lettuce production a challenge.

Here are four steps to help you negotiate the trickiest months and keep you crunching on salads all through Summer!

Although the whole leek is usable, we much prefer the inherent sweet, buttery, slightly pungent flavour of the shank of the leek and use the leafy tops in stock. So how do we sow and grow leeks to produce the largest shank with minimal effort…