Stevia
What to plant

The sweetest thing

Did you know you can grow stevia in your garden? Stevia rebaudiana is a tender perennial that grows best in humid, wet environments.

Edible flowers
What to plant

Edible flowers

Edible flowers add colour and texture to your patch and flavour to your cooking. You can start with borage, marigolds and violets.

Beetroot
What to plant

How to grow beetroot

Beetroot comes in a variety of colours and shapes: there is much more to this vegie than the standard red/purple types. You can also grow it yourself.

Lavandula stoechas
What to plant

Herb hedges you can grow yourself

Lavender can planted so that it makes a hedge that will provide a beautiful scent as well as nectar for pollinators.

Angelica
What to plant

Statuesque angelica

Choose your spot carefully before planting angelica as it quickly grows to a metre across and more than two metres high when in flower.

Collect the ingredients
What to plant

White oil spray

Make your own white oil spray to use on sap sucking insects, mealy bug, aphids, two-spotted mite, citrus leaf miner, whitefly and scale.

Alyssum
What to plant

Flowers for late winter and spring colour

Alyssum is one of our favourite annual flower seeds to plant for late winter and spring colour.

Frost protection
What to plant

Frost, good or bad?

Frosts are part of many gardeners lives but are they good or bad?

Kiwi fruit on vine
What to plant

Grow kiwi fruit and reap the benefits

Plant kiwi fruit vines in spring and reap the benefits for decades.

Beurre bosc is a vigorous and productive heirloom.
What to plant

Pears: cool season fruit to grow in your backyard

Fresh is best when it comes to pears as they are a very fragile fruit. Here's the many reasons for growing your own tree, including their ability to thrive and grow fruit in a variety of climates.

Heirloom tomatoes
What to plant

Modern heirloom tomatoes

Heirloom tomato seeds have many advantages especially as they are non-hybrid plants from which you can collect seeds and regrow plants that generally grow true to type.

Native herbs you can grow yourself
What to plant

Native herbs you can grow yourself

There are an amazing variety of Australian herbs that are easily grown in pots or gardens, full sun or semi shade. Here's a selection.