OUR ESTATE TO PLATE PHILOSOPHY STARTS WITH OUR GARDENS

The gardens were originally designed by the highly respected landscape architect Andrew Laidlaw, best known for his work at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens. A trusted friend of the Mitchell family, Andrew helped Wendy design and plan the original Piazza gardens in 2002, now affectionately known as Wendy’s Garden.



HARVEST CALENDAR

The Montalto Estate Gardens provide our kitchens with an abundance of incredible produce throughout the year. Our harvest calendar is a seasonal guide to what you can expect to see on our menus throughout the year in The Restaurant and The Piazza.

Tomatoes, Garlic, garlic chive flowers, Globe artichokes, zucchini, Leeks, eggplant, cucumbers, sweetcorn, beans, radishes, salad mix, carrots, rainbow chard, baby potatoes, perpetual spinach, beetroot, elderflowers and berries, blood plums, apricots, raspberries, rhubarb, basil, bronze fennel, shiso bi-coloured, red orach spinach, Osaka mustard, liquorice root, wasabi greens, chillies and lots of edible flowers.

Tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, cucumbers, sweetcorn, potatoes, beans, radishes, salad mix, carrots, rainbow chard, perpetual spinach, beetroot, elderflowers and berries, apples, Quinces, Medlars, Buerre Bosc pears, figs, blood plums, last of the apricots, raspberries, rhubarb, basil, shiso bicoloured, bronze fennel, Osaka mustard, wasabi greens, chillies.’Golden Nugget’ pumpkins, lots of edible flowers.

Lots of apples, figs, tamarillos, persimmons, blackberries, tomatoes, tomatillos, zucchini, cucumbers, eggplant, leeks, corn, beans, radishes, salad mix, carrots, chard, perpetual spinach, bronze fennel, beetroot, elderberries, rhubarb, basil, wasabi greens, Osaka mustard, amaranth, chilli, pumpkins -all varieties.

Tamarillos, Figs, apples, quince, Autumn raspberries, pumpkins, rainbow chard, last of the beans, last of the zucchini, last of the cucumbers, basil, tomatoes, eggplant, chillies, rhubarb, tomatoes, salad greens, beetroot, amaranth, carrots, radishes, garlic chives.

Usually a bit of a hungry gap time, but, carrots, radish, mustard greens, beetroot, salad mix, kiwifruit (usually a crate), olives, rhubarb, last of the figs, last of the apples, feijoas, guavas.

Cime di rapa, broccoli, kales, radish, beetroot, citrus, rhubarb, tamarillos. Jerusalem artichokes.

Kales, broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, radicchio, Jerusalem artichokes, rainbow chard, radish, turnips, beetroot, broad bean tips, citrus.

Kales, broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, radicchio, green garlic, rainbow chard, carrots, radish, beetroot, broad bean tips, mustard greens, citrus.

Kales, broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, radicchio, rainbow chard, green garlic, carrots, radish, turnips, beetroot, broad bean tips, mustard greens, citrus, peas, parsnips, snow peas.

Kales, last of the broccoli, last of the cauliflower, leeks, last of the radicchio, rainbow chard, carrots, radish, turnips, beetroot, broad bean tips, broad beans, salad mix, mustard greens, citrus, peas, snow peas.

Broad beans, carrots, radish, salad mix, mustard greens, turnips, rhubarb.

Zucchini, cucumber, beans (bush and climbers), salad mix, mustard greens, shiso, basil, lovage, Apricots (earliest is Moorpark), tomatoes- if we’re lucky!