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.

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.

Meet the Myrtles

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

Fruit trees: basics and beyond

Foundation knowledge and advanced tips for growing fruit trees in your backyard.

Autumn trio: radicchio, borage and strawberry guava

As the heat of summer softens and evenings turn cooler, autumn offers a sweet spot for gardening. While the soil is still warm, Jian Liu is planting this colourful collection.

Bunches of success

Discover which banana varieties you can grow in your climatic zone.