The cooler weather is here so it’s time to get cracking in the veggie garden! It’s not too late to get your veggies in start dreaming of your winter harvest!

It’s June, the start of winter and there is still time to get your veggies in and growing even in the cold winter weather.

Here in Moree it isn’t too cold and we don’t have excessive amount for frosts like the other parts of the country but we still need to have our veggies gardens ready to for our winter. The trick with this part of the world is having your veggies growing in the cooler months and finished before it heats up in spring and summer.

You can still plant many things from either seeds or seedlings.

Best stared from seeds: Asian greens (Bok Choy, Pak Choi etc), Beetroot, Carrot, beans (faba beans) and peas (snow pea, sugar snap pea, shelling pea etc), radish and lettuce.

Best started form seedling: Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbages, onions, English spinach, silverbeet and lettuce.

To get your seed and seedlings off to a good start you could cover with a cut off milk bottle. Simply cut the bottom out of it and take the lid off, place over the planted seed or seedlings and make sure it doesn’t dry out. This acts as a mini glasshouse, and protects it until it gets going. Once the seeds or seedlings have established just remove the milk bottle. Easy as that!

If you have spare room in the garden be sure to put a cover crop in and keep the soil microbes going! Just cut the cover crop down about two weeks before you want to plant your next crop or before it sets seed. At this time of the year you could use something like, wheat, barley, chickpea, canola or you can even use packets of old winter sown seed that might be past its best.

Winter is here so if getting going! Don’t have a veggie garden yet, get going. Don’t have winter veg in yet, get planting but most importantly enjoy the outdoors and digging in the dirt!

Happy Gardening Everyone!