basil

beans

beetroot

celery

cucumbers 

eggplant

Leeks

pak choi

parsnip

potatoes

pumpkin

radishes

silver beet

turnips

zucchini  

Harvest - Asparagus, Autumn planted broad beans, lettuces, Spring onions.

Plant your Summer crops
The last two weeks of October and the first two of November is the key time for planting your main Summer crops.  Summer plantings can still be done after this time but later plantings run the risk of not ripening before the onset of cold weather in the Autumn.

Protect Summer plantings from late frosts
Monitor the weather for possible late frosts.  The signs being still nights with no cloud cover.  If you do think there might be a frost then cover any emerging frost sensitive seedlings (such as beans, corn and zucchinis) with old cotton sheets or greenhouse plastic.  This will protect them from mild Spring frosts.  But don't forget to remove the coverings the next day.

Scuff hoe bare vegetable beds
Scuff hoe (lightly break the surface of the soil) your vegetable beds (as for September).

Hand remove slugs and snails at night
Do two or three torch light searches of your vegetable patch for large slugs and snails and remove by hand any that you find.  I simply squash them, but they can also be killed by placing them in a bucket of salty water.  These torch light searches can in fact be done anytime of the year but early to mid Spring produce a lot of warm wet nights which are ideal conditions for slugs and snails.  It is also the time when your garden is most vulnerable to slugs and snails as there are many delicate seedlings just sprouting.

Torch light searches are not just about hand removing slugs and snails.  Use these searches to identify where the slugs and snails are concentrated (usually where there is good cover nearby).  Target these concentrations using techniques found in the DETERRING SLUGS AND SNAILS and DEFENDING AGAINST SLUGS AND SNAILS sections.

Water all newly planted seedlings with liquid fertiliser
To maximise the success rate of newly planted seedlings give them a watering of liquid fertiliser when they are planted out.  Repeat the application two or three times in the next fortnight.