Planting Season - Sydney: The Year-Round Warm-Temperate Gardening Playbook for Sydney and Coastal NSW (Planting Season - Australia)

Grow food all year in Sydney, the Central Coast, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains, with a calendar built for the warm-temperate climate nobody else writes for.Sydney gets handed two kinds of advice and both fail it. Melbourne books are too cold, Brisbane blogs are too tropical, and neither knows that the frost-free coast and the frosty west are two different gardens an hour apart. Planting Season Sydney gives you the calendar that gardens the basin on its own terms, coast or west, plus the soil, water and pest playbook that keeps a home garden productive twelve months a year. Sydney has the widest growing range of any Australian capital. This is the book that finally uses it.Written for Sydney's five microclimate zones, the frost-free eastern and coastal suburbs, the middle suburbs and north shore, the hot and frosty Cumberland Plain out west, the Hawkesbury river flats, and the cool Blue Mountains, this guide turns a confusing in-between climate into a simple month-by-month plan. You will know what to sow this week, what to feed it, what to watch for and when to pick.What you get inside:A true Sydney planting calendar with the best sowing windows for every major crop, with the coast-versus-west timing split spelled out for every entry.A full plant library of more than 100 crops that thrive here, from passionfruit and citrus to the long cool-season brassicas, with spacing, sun, water, pests and companions for each.Soil playbook for Sydney's sandstone sands, the shale clay-loams of the Cumberland Plain, and the Hawkesbury river flats, with a no-dig build and honest contamination advice.Pest and disease field guide for the pests you actually meet here: Queensland fruit fly, possums, bush turkeys, cabbage white and the humid-summer fungal troubles.Companion planting charts, organic sprays and a beneficial insects chapter to keep the garden in balance.Water strategy for humid summers, east-coast-low deluges and dry western heat.Crop rotation, seed saving, composting and worm farming, small spaces and renting, and real Sydney case studies.Bush tucker chapter covering warrigal greens, midyim berry, finger lime, native raspberry and more.A "Real Talk" voice throughout, with honest advice on what to skip, when to rest, and how to garden the coast and the west on their own calendars.Who it's for:New Sydney gardeners stuck between cold-climate and tropical advice that does not fit.Renters with a shady courtyard or a balcony who want fresh food year-round.Western Sydney gardeners fighting frost and 40-degree heat in the same year.Families wanting homegrown food, lower grocery bills and a garden that feeds them all year.Why this book is different:It was written for the Sydney basin and coastal NSW, and structured around the five zones inside it, so an inner-west courtyard gardener and a Penrith block owner get different advice, not the same bland guidance.Pair it with the free Planting Season app at plantingseason.com.au for month-by-month alerts, watering reminders, and the full plant library on your phone.Tap Buy now and get the Sydney growing calendar that will still be useful in ten years. Read more