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.
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.
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.
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.
Flowers for late winter and spring colour
Alyssum is one of our favourite annual flower seeds to plant for late winter and spring colour.
Grow kiwi fruit and reap the benefits
Plant kiwi fruit vines in spring and reap the benefits for decades.
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.
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
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.
Poppy planting time
Planting poppy seed takes a little care but when it blooms it's an absolute joy!
Grow your own delightfully delicious oranges!
Oranges offer so much more than their health-giving fruit, including beauty, shade and a delirious scent - and you can even grow them in pots!