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.
A garden for little birds
Discover how native shrubs, grasses and water can restore vital habitat for fairy-wrens, thornbills and other little bush birds in your garden.
Grow: tomatoes
Who doesn't love homegrown tomatoes straight off the vine? If you follow these tips you'll have a bumper harvest of these colourful beauties come spring.
The bulb and the beautiful: growing alliums
The allium family has much to offer the patient, and the impatient, gardener, from slow-growing onions to the leafy harvest of chives and spring onions, writes Marcelle Nankervis.