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How to grow wombok
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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.
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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.
![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.
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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!
![Happy 90th birthday ABC! This special two-layer macadamia cake features lemon-myrtle syrup, lemon curd, orange buttercream and crystallised grapefruit.](https://www.organicgardener.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Maggie Beer cake-500x467.jpg)
Happy 90th birthday ABC!
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Get ready to celebrate the ABC's 90th birthday with Maggie Beer's 'symphony of citrus' celebration cake!
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Finding fungi in the wild
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Mushroom foraging is a fun activity in autumn but do it safely with help from experts.
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Frogs in your backyard
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Penny Woodward has had a large frog pond in her garden for 10 years, offering a home for a species that's under threat.
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Seeds are free
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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.
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Growing tomatoes from seed
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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.
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The Magic of Peonies
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We love peonies at OG and Eliza Henry-Jones shares that love -- here she also shares tips for growing these beauties.
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Urban gardening
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Clare and Keith have turned a basic apartment backyard into a vegie-filled garden that supplies them with fresh produce throughout the year.
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Getting your vegie garden started
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Starting a vegie patch? Well, there's one very important question to ask yourself, writes Helen McKerral.
![Buy local to help organic farmers There’s a great range of organic produce available at Peninsula Fresh’s farmgate in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.](https://www.organicgardener.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Pen-Fresh-Farm-gate-2-500x500.jpg)
Buy local to help organic farmers
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One simple way to support rural communities is to purchase produce from the farmers who are doing it tough.
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Life according to Kevin McCloud
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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.