What else are dedicated Canberra gardeners putting in? Small, hardy, red mignonette or buttercrunch type lettuces, that might just get big enough by the time the soil cools down? Celery, which won’t grow big stems but will grow delicious tender leaves through winter, far better than the tougher parsley? Potatoes, for an early spring crop? Pansies, primulas, Iceland poppies, the ‘thee p’s’ of winter flower? Heartsease, like tiny pansies? Wintercress? Warrigal spinach, a native green that needs two lots of boiling to remove oxalic acid before you eat it?