Spring is peak vegetable garden planting time. Most vegetables can be planted now, from leafy greens to tomatoes, from celery to beans. Some vegetables are best planted as seeds, such as climbing or bush beans. Try planting both types as bush beans produce quickly but over a shorter time frame and climbing beans take longer to produce but do so for longer. Other vegetables are best planted as seedlings, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, and chilies. These can be raised now in punnets, in seed-raising mix, in a homemade greenhouse such as a tall foam fruit box with holes punched in the bottom for drainage and some clear plastic or similar over the top. Celery, silverbeet, mizuna, flat leaf parsley, leafy lettuces and spring onions are great planted now, as those…
