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

• Basil
• Beans (dwarf and climbing)
• Beetroot
• Cape Gooseberry
• Capsicum seedlings
• Carrot
• Celery seedlings
• Chilli
• Choko
• Cucumber
• Eggplant seedlings
• Kohlrabi
• Leeks seedlings
• Lettuce
• Luffa seedlings
• Marrow
• Mustard greens
• Okra seedlings
• Pumpkin
• Radish
• Rockmelon seedlings
• Silverbeet
• Squash
• Sunflower
• Sweet corn
• Tomato seedlings
• Turnip
• Watermelon seedlings
• Zucchini seedlings

Plant of the Month – Spectacular Double Daylily – (Hemerocallis Fulva’Kwanso’)