I'm in Brisbane and I have watermellon, jap pumpkin egg plant, various chillis, any herbs you can think of, strawberries, try cherry tomatoes up here over summer, sourse out a fruit fly tolerant varietY.
Mick

Have a look at the web site below. They list a lot of things that can be planted/sown now in the Brisbane area. To avoid the worst of the heat and fruit fly for tomatoes, try sowing in Jan/Feb/Mar. My son, who lives on the northern outskirts of Brisbane, has best success with cherry toms over summer as they seem less susceptible to FF attack, though he still gets losses. As for foliage diseases, rife over hot humid summers, try some of the potato leaf varities (a leaf that looks for all the world like a potato leaf). They seem more able to cope. Eden Seeds has one called "Potato Leaf", not a very imaginative name. They also carry "Cherokee Purple" which seems pretty rugged.
Hope this helps.

Here is a link that might be useful: BOGI

Hi Daniel. Forget about the tomatoes till about February we pulled up the bed at the back fence last week, as they had fruit fly in them, but still have the four around the side near my potting bench ( San Marzano ) and they are going fine, there are heaps of tommys on them just starting to colour now, BUT if the fruit fly dont get them the water will they all split when we get those big thunderstorms. The cherry toms are doing fine they came up out of the compost.

I have lots of cucumbers we are eating them now, no trouble with spring onions we have been eating them all year I keep planting another bed as soon as one bed gets to a certain size. Radish is another one I grow heaps of with no trouble and silver beet for the chooks those plants just never die the more you pick the bigger they get.

As Mick said up top pumpkins do well, so Tony planted has planted them in little beds where all the mulch is so they are not in the way they go alright here too as do watermelons all the vine crops do well over our summer you just have to watch the mildew. One year I planted rockmelons they grew to a lovely size but tasted salty so never again.

Bok choy is another one that grows well over summer, and snake beans but I have never grown them.. As the beds get empty now I plant peas from the dry lentils part of the supermarket and when they get so high I push them under the soil every little helps O I eat the peas first well some of them its good to have a cover crop to enrich the soil for the next planting season....Happy Gardening in your little bit of Paradise.....Cheers..MM.

If you don't like gardening in the heat just feed and mulch your gardens and plant pumpkins.

I live near Gympie so it is a little hotter here but we grow pumpkin, watermelons, cucumbers and similar, roma tomatoes, yellow pear tomatoes (both these come up by themselves), non-hearting lettuce and silverbeet (both sown every couple of weeks in light part shade), corn, beans, carrots. Sometimes if the temps really get up some of the vegies struggle and quality isn't so good, occassional disease, etc but usually can keep us going. Providing light shade in the middle of the day and regular watering, (misting can help if it gets real hot). Watering could be a problem with restrictions in Brissy, but we have plenty (with care) of dam water.

hi danielkemp

I'm at dicky beach on the sunshine coast - we have zucchini, jap pumpkin, eggplant (black and red), sweet potato, onions, leeks, shallots, tomatoes (now protected by fruit fly bags - seems to work well), capcicum, chillies, silverbeet, cucumber, lettuces (frilly leaf) chinese vegies - all sorts of herbs (half a dozen mint, fennel, corriander, chives, garlic, cardamom, brahmi), passionfruit, raspberries, bananas,

stick it in - if it grows - eat it. if it doesn't grow - compost it. ;-)

Thanks very much folks! I really appreciate your guidance everybody. Dan