A subtropical gardening reference brand for South East Queensland. Month-by-month calendars, a full plant library, and a pest and disease field guide calibrated for the climate between Caloundra and Coolangatta.
About the Imprint
Most gardening books are written for temperate climates. Four clean seasons. A frost-defined winter. A dry summer. South East Queensland does not work that way. We have two real seasons, a cool dry and a warm wet. Humidity that breeds fungal disease. A fruit fly window that kills every spring tomato. Storm weeks that can flatten a bed overnight. Frost pockets that only appear on the Darling Downs and in the Hinterland.
Planting Season exists to fix that. It is a reference brand written in the subtropics, tested in the subtropics, and structured around the real microclimates that sit inside SEQ. A Toowoomba reader and a Redcliffe reader get different advice for the same month, because their weather is different in the same month.
The book is the reference. The companion app is the day-to-day. Together they give SEQ gardeners the calendar, the plant library, and the playbook calibrated to this exact climate.
The SEQ garden calendar that actually matches the weather outside.
Spring tomatoes meet fruit fly. Summer lettuce bolts in a week. Winter is the real planting season, and nobody told you. Planting Season is the 12-month subtropical playbook written for how SEQ actually grows.
Launching with a flagship regional title and a growing reference catalogue underneath it.
“In SEQ, the best growing window for most crops is winter, not spring. If your book says plant in spring, it is wrong for SEQ.”
Planting Season SEQ
Who It Is For
The new SEQ homeowner. The frustrated gardener who has watched half their crops fail to fruit fly, humidity, or bolting. The interstate transplant whose Melbourne or Sydney timing no longer works. The balcony grower. The sustainable-living family that wants real food, lower bills, and a backyard that feeds the household year-round. The experienced gardener who wants a proper reference open on the bench.
Planting Season is built to be the book you keep, not the book you skim. A genuine reference for a region that has never had one.
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