How to grow wombok
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How to grow wombok

Add this Asian green to your patch for a fresh addition to stir-fries, salads and soups. You'll also have the main ingredient to make kimchi.

Your organic pest control kit
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Your organic pest control kit

Learn how to keep snails, slugs and other pests in check before they eat their way through your garden.

There's multiple benefits to having a garden in the school environment.
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A green learning environment

One principal’s vision to enhance his students learning environment through gardening has everyone at the school seeing green, writes Kate Neale.

You may have to search online for heirloom tomato seeds.
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Heirloom seed suppliers

Following on from our top-tasting tomatoes feature in our Spring 2023 issue (OG 144), here’s a selected suppliers list to search out your favourites.

ABC Science wants to know your favourite Aussie animal sound (ABC).
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Tuning into Nature: Vote for Australia’s favourite animal sound

What is your favourite animal sound? Vote in the ABC Science national poll today!

This special two-layer macadamia cake features lemon-myrtle syrup, lemon curd, orange buttercream and crystallised grapefruit.
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Happy 90th birthday ABC!

Get ready to celebrate the ABC's 90th birthday with Maggie Beer's 'symphony of citrus' celebration cake!

Finding fungi in the wild
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Finding fungi in the wild

Mushroom foraging is a fun activity in autumn but do it safely with help from experts.

Southern Corroboree Frog
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Frogs in your backyard

Penny Woodward has had a large frog pond in her garden for 10 years, offering a home for a species that's under threat.

Julie with Painted Lady bean seeds
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Seeds are free

Karen Sutherland explains these seeds are available for free, all you have to do is use them to grow food, save those seeds and then share with others.

Tomato seedlings
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Growing tomatoes from seed

There are many ways of growing tomatoes from seed, but here is one of the simplest and most common, using punnets or seedling trays, from our horticultural editor Penny Woodward.

Itoh peonies from Issue 117
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The Magic of Peonies

We love peonies at OG and Eliza Henry-Jones shares that love -- here she also shares tips for growing these beauties.

Urban gardening
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Urban gardening

Clare and Keith have turned a basic apartment backyard into a vegie-filled garden that supplies them with fresh produce throughout the year.

Getting your vegie garden started
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Getting your vegie garden started

Starting a vegie patch? Well, there's one very important question to ask yourself, writes Helen McKerral.

There’s a great range of organic produce available at Peninsula Fresh’s farmgate in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
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Buy local to help organic farmers

One simple way to support rural communities is to purchase produce from the farmers who are doing it tough.  

Life according to Kevin McCloud
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Life according to Kevin McCloud

In our latest issue Kylie McGregor talks with Kevin McCloud, environmentalist, writer and intriguing host of BAFTA award-winning Grand Designs, who is currently in Australia for a one-man stage show.