![Prepare your patch for the cool season Brassicas like cauliflower can be started in punnets then transplanted.](https://www.organicgardener.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Brassica_iStock-500x500.jpg)
Prepare your patch for the cool season
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Autumn is the time to turn our attention to planning and prepping our winter garden.
![Grow these summer-proof leafy greens Silverbeet growing in a Melbourne garden.](https://www.organicgardener.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Silverbeet_Jian-Liu-500x500.jpg)
Grow these summer-proof leafy greens
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Here are three leafy greens that you can plant today. They thrive in the heat and will provide nutrient-dense salads, pasta, pastries and more.
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WIN 1 of 2 gardening tool packs, worth $500 each!
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You'll be summer ready if you win this pack of gardening tools from Fiskars. Enter today!
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Show Us Your Shed competition
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See below for full terms and conditions for the ABC Organic Gardener Show Us Your Shed competition.
![Your organic pest control kit Your organic pest control kit](https://www.organicgardener.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Snail_Phil-Dudman-500x500.jpg)
Your organic pest control kit
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Learn how to keep snails, slugs and other pests in check before they eat their way through your garden.
![Beetle discovery sign of hidden biodiversity Excastra albopilosa](https://www.organicgardener.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Excastra albopilosa_James Tweed-500x500.jpg)
Beetle discovery sign of hidden biodiversity
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A new beetle discovery, Excastra albopilosa, sheds light on the importance of natural pest control and biodiversity.
![A green learning environment There's multiple benefits to having a garden in the school environment.](https://www.organicgardener.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/OG 115_Catholic Regional College Sydenham_Kristen Bresciani_web-500x500.jpg)
A green learning environment
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One principal’s vision to enhance his students learning environment through gardening has everyone at the school seeing green, writes Kate Neale.
![Reviving the Yarra River: Melbourne’s Floating Wetlands Initiative Floating wetlands have been installed in the Yarra River near Enterprize Park, Melbourne.](https://www.organicgardener.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Enterprize Park_OG web-500x500.jpg)
Reviving the Yarra River: Melbourne’s Floating Wetlands Initiative
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A new initiative is set to improve the urban ecological diversity along the Yarra River.
![Heirloom seed suppliers You may have to search online for heirloom tomato seeds.](https://www.organicgardener.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/OG 144 tomatoes basket_Kirsten Bresciani-500x500.jpg)
Heirloom seed suppliers
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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.
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Tuning into Nature: Vote for Australia’s favourite animal sound
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What is your favourite animal sound? Vote in the ABC Science national poll today!
![Good news: botanists rediscover a plant thought to be extinct The rediscovered bearded flat sedge.](https://www.organicgardener.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bearded flat sedge_RBGV-500x500.jpg)
Good news: botanists rediscover a plant thought to be extinct
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It’s not often the rediscovery of a species thought to be extinct makes headlines, but botanists in Victoria have done just that.
![How ‘The Last of Us’ Inspires Us to Tackle Climate Change AI-generated image of mushrooms in a forest.](https://www.organicgardener.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Mushroom_PlaygroundAI_Isabel Toohey-500x500.jpg)
How ‘The Last of Us’ Inspires Us to Tackle Climate Change
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The hit HBO show The Last of Us creates some interesting questions around the threat and benefit of mushrooms and their role in tackling climate change.