Tomatoes would have to be the most popular homegrown vegetable in Australia. We are all hanging out for sweet, tasty fruit (botanically they are a fruit) after going through winter with mostly tasteless, hard semi-ripe tomatoes.

There seems to be quite a bit of confusion surrounding the rotation of crops. You don’t need to study magic or pay strict attention to the lunar phases; you just need to have a few ideas about what you want to grow. Crop rotation is simply making sure that you do not plant the same crop in the same spot every year. For those of you who are thinking “I cant remember from one month to the next what I plant let alone a whole year,” that’s why they invented digital cameras.