Grow: sweet potato

The best garden plants work harder – offering colour, texture, habitat and a harvest to enjoy.

What’s bugging your lawn?

Find out what’s causing your lawn troubles and explore practical, organic ways to get your grass back on track.

Edible roots

Learn about the native edible plants with well-hidden harvests that offer new possibilities for the home gardener to explore.

Top tasks for spring vegies

Warming weather means it’s time to prep and plant for bumper vegie harvests.

Tropical fruits year round: panama berry and papaya

A productive subtropical garden is never just about one season. With the right choices, tropical fruits can appear throughout the year, including the sweet harvests of Panama berry and the versatile papaya.

Grow: radicchio and rocket

It's easy to add a bit of spicy flavour to a meal with fresh radicchio and rocket straight from your garden.

Budget-friendly summer vegies

Grow these top money-saving summer vegies for a prolific harvest: leafy greens, beans, cucumbers, zucchini and budget herbs, with growing tips for each.

What’s bugging your tomatoes: 12 tomato troubles

We uncover the top 12 tomato troubles, from whitefly and blossom end rot to fruit fly and blight, with organic controls for each.

Tangy bush treats: native citrus to grow

Here's five zesty edible natives to grow now, from finger limes and lemon myrtle to Geraldton wax and lemon aspen.

How to grow a rainbow of tomatoes

Peter Vouthas grows 60 tomato varieties a year. A step-by-step guide to growing tomatoes: seed sowing, potting on, hardening off and his top 10 picks.

Spring trio: zinnias, watermelons, shiso

Learn more about three stand-out spring plants to fill your backyard with colour: cheerful zinnias, sweet watermelons and citrusy shiso.

Meet the Myrtles

Explore the versatility of native myrtles and choose the one that best suits the space in your garden.