Today is the first day of spring and this is the first planting guide of the season. The following is a list of things you can plant in September in Sydney, a temperate zone:

• Amaranth
• Artichokes
• Asparagus
• Basil
• Beans – climbing and bush beans
• Beetroot
• Broccoli
• Cabbage
• Cape Gooseberry
• Capsicum
• Carrot
• Celery
• Chicory
• Chillies
• Cucumber
• Eggplant
• Jerusalem artichoke
• Leeks
• Lettuce
• Luffa
• Marrow
• Mustard Greens
• Parsnip
• Peas
• Potato
• Pumpkin
• Radish
• Rhubarb
• Rocket
• Rockmelon in seed trays
• Silverbeet
• Snow Peas
• Sunflower
• Sweet corn
• Tomato
• Turnip
• Zucchini

Plant of the Month – The delicate pink flowers of Leptospermum – Scoparian