You will find Patlin Gardens at the Adelaide Showground Farmers Market every Sunday at Site #71

Produce: Vegetables, olives, olive oil, chilli sauce, passata, salad greens, melons

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Lina Verilli and Pat D'Onofrio’s farm on the Gawler River produces a wide range of seasonal, pesticide-free vegetables. Over 100 different lines throughout the year and all grown outdoors.

To keep their Patlin Gardens’ soil as fertile as possible Pat and Lina use organic manures, compost, seaweed extract, and rotational and companion planting.  

This garden is also the source of their delicious extra virgin olive oils. Their 2000 tree grove produces oil from different olive varieties and also supplies the fruit for Pat and Lina’s traditional salt-treated olives which are dressed with oregano, garlic and chilli from their garden.

Lina makes a concentrated chilli sauce from jalapenos. Its preservative free and flavoured with garlic, cumin, oregano and ground coriander. Available all year until sold out.

Another delicacy is the passata with tomatoes, basil and salt – excellent as a pizza base or as a sauce for pasta and casseroles.

Patlin Gardens’ fresh range calendar

All year round:

• Garlic
• Beetroot
• Spring Onion
• Radish – includes Red Meat, a unique radish of Chinese origin and Daikon
• Herbs
• Spinach
• Mustard Greens
• Rocket
• Carrots
• Lettuce

Xmas to May:

• Salad Greens
• Tomatoes
• Capsicums
• Cucumbers
• Zucchinis – 20 varieties, plus flowers
• Squash – includes trumpet squash with its subtle tasty flavour
• Rock, Honey Dew and Water Melons, all vine ripened
• Onions and Salad Onions
• Chillis
• Sweetcorn

May to Xmas:

• Turnips
• Swedes
• Kale – main variety is cavallo nero
• Broccoli (one has been tested to have more than 20 times the usual amount of antioxidants)
• Endives
• Chicory
• Fennel
• Radicchio
• Potatoes

Pumpkins, mainly butternut, from March to October.

Pat and Lina are always trialling new and old vegetable varieties to bring to Market.