Sow and grow corn during the warmer months.
Vegetables

Grow colourful corn!

Corn in all its colours and types thrives in our hot summers and can be packed into a small space making it an ideal backyard vegie, writes Jian Liu.

You can grow your own fresh tomatoes with our experts' tips.
Vegetables

Time to grow tomatoes

These tips from our horticultural experts will help you have a bumper tomato harvest.

Great yellow cornflower
Flowers, shrubs & trees

Spring floral beauties

Looking for flowering plants for your spring garden? Justin Russell suggests adding these four bright blooms - they'll bring both colour and pollinators to your patch!

Oca tubers have a pleasant lemony flavour.
Vegetables

Try your hand at yams

You can tap into the highly sustaining qualities of yams, whether you have a cool or warm climate garden, writes Karen Sutherland.

A young 'Sugar Baby' melon grows on a frame to save space.
Fruit & nuts

Mini watermelons you can grow in any space!

Don’t think you have the room for watermelons? Helen McKerral shares her space-saving tricks, plus one of the smaller varieties for you to try.

Eliza Henry-Jones picking flowers in her dahlia patch.
Flowers, shrubs & trees

Hooked on flowers

Eliza Henry-Jones grows seasonal bee-friendly blooms on her organic flower farm. Here's two of her favourites to add to your own garden.

Pest exclusion  nets are an organic  gardener’s best friend.
Pests & diseases

Organic pest control: start here

Pests and diseases are to be expected, but one way to keep them at bay is to plant the right crops at the right time, writes Phil Dudman.

Only the stalks of rhubarb are edible.
Vegetables

The joys of growing rhubarb

The scent of rhubarb and apple pie coming from a kitchen is oh-so tempting, especially when you've grown the rhubarb yourself. You can get started with these tips from Jian Liu.

Broad-leafed annual, 'Apollo'.
Vegetables

Growing rocket

This versatile, peppery herb, is as easy to grow as it is delicious! Great for salads and stir-fries.

Flowering callistemons are insect magnets
Flowers, shrubs & trees

Top native trees

Helen McKerral suggests some small native trees that will fit into most gardens, attracting birds and insects with their colourful flowers.

Silverbeet is colourful and delicious!
Vegetables

Silverbeet and friends

Lush, prodigious, multicoloured, nutritious – Helen Cushing reveals the rich tapestry of silverbeet (or chard by any other name).

Bunch of celery in a basket.
Vegetables

How to grow tasty celery

The taste of your celery depends on many factors, including whether or not you blanch the stem of the plant during the growing process.