Green font means I've tried it and it grows great here.
1. Temperate gardening season
- Best time for cool season vegetables.
- This is the time to grow cabbages, broccoli, kale, carrots, garlic onions, turnips, swedes, peas, Chinese cabbage and Asian greens, and is the best time of year for salad greens such as lettuce, rocket, parsley and coriander.
- Collards!
2. Spring through to early summer is more like a warm temperate (Mediterranean) summer and tropical dry season – hot and dry. This is the season for planting artichokes, peppers, capsicum, eggplant (aubergine), zucchinis, squash, cucumbers, pumpkin, sweet corn, basil, tomato, beans, and for establishing tropical veg that require a long growing season like gourds, luffa, cassava, yams etc.
3. Summer to early Autumn is the Wet Season and ideal for crops typical of the humid tropics. Most of these crops are actually planted in the latter part of the dry season and grow through the wet for autumn harvest. Typical summer crops include cassava, yam, taro, yacon, turmeric, snake beans, shallots, warrigal greens, snake gourd, bitter melon, Ceylon spinach (malabar spinach), okinawa spinach, kang kong and other tropical greens.
The biggest takeaway on tropical greens:
- plant collards every winter
- plant malabar spinach every spring
- plant/grow okinawa spinach all year long
