Today is the first day of autumn and this is the first Planting Guide of the season.

The following is a list of vegetables and herbs that  you can plant in March in Sydney, a temperate zone. Just click on the name for the growing guide for each vegetable:

• Amaranth
• Beans – broad beans, fava beans
• Beetroot
• Broccoli transplant seedlings
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Carrot
• Daikon
• Endive
• Kale
• Kohlrabi
• Leeks
• Lettuce
• Mizuna
• Mustard greens
• Parsley
• Radish
• Rocket
• Shallots
• Silverbeet
• Spinach
• Turnip

Plant of the month – The dainty Hibiscus Schizopetalus – (japanese lantern)

Unlike their showier cousins the Japanese Lantern Hibiscus are small and so delicate:

These hibiscus flowers hang like lanterns from the tree: