Korean Vegetables for Australian Gardens: Perilla, Radish, Napa for Kimchi

Napa Cabbage for KimchiGrowing your own napa cabbage (wombok) for kimchi is extraordinarily satisfying — the flavour of homemade kimchi using garden-fresh cabbage is incomparably better than supermarket versions. The variety Bilko F1 is consistently recommended for kimchi production in Australian conditions. Harvest at full maturity when heads are dense and firm.Perilla / Korean KkaennipKorean perilla has slightly different characteristics to Japanese shiso — larger leaves, more pronounced f…