Enter the ABC Organic Gardener Show Us Your Shed competition
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Show Us Your Shed competition

See below for full terms and conditions for the ABC Organic Gardener Show Us Your Shed competition.

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.

Excastra albopilosa
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Beetle discovery sign of hidden biodiversity

A new beetle discovery, Excastra albopilosa, sheds light on the importance of natural pest control and biodiversity.

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.

Floating wetlands have been installed in the Yarra River near Enterprize Park, Melbourne.
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Reviving the Yarra River: Melbourne’s Floating Wetlands Initiative

A new initiative is set to improve the urban ecological diversity along the Yarra River.

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!

The rediscovered bearded flat sedge.
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Good news: botanists rediscover a plant thought to be extinct

It’s not often the rediscovery of a species thought to be extinct makes headlines, but botanists in Victoria have done just that.

AI-generated image of mushrooms in a forest.
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How ‘The Last of Us’ Inspires Us to Tackle Climate Change

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.

The specially designed Growth Chamber replicates growth system on the International Space Station.
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The final frontier for agriculture: growing bush foods in space

Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is to lead a pilot program exploring the potential of bush foods as a diet option for astronauts in Australian schools.

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!