WELCOME TO THE ISSUE
Late spring/early summer has to be the best time of year in the garden. For me, anyway. Maybe it’s because I can grow my favourite things, most especially zucchini. You can honestly never have too much because you can use it in so many ways: roasted, in frittatas and fritters, lending lovely moisture to cakes and bread, and — my current favourite — as zoodles. I’m mad for them, especially piled with prawns cooked with chilli, garlic, lemon and parsley. Melissa King has the many faces of zucchini well covered in Family Heirlooms and she also looks at honeydew melon and tamarillo as fruits to plant now. Meanwhile, Jennifer Stackhouse covers celery, scarlet runner bean and taro to plant in the vegie patch, along with parsley for the herb garden. Plus,…