Freshly picked carrots of a variety of colours.
Vegetables

Grow your own root vegies for winter

Karen Sutherland suggests some super-nourishing root vegies for you to plant during this winter from carrots to sugar beets

Helen grows her wasabi in an old laundry tub.
Vegetables

Grow your own wasabi

Growing wasabi means you have this spicy food flavouring ready to be harvested in your own backyard

Miner's lettuce leaves can be eaten fresh or lightly cooked as you would spinach.
Vegetables

Cool salad greens

These cold-loving salad greens can be planted now for a healthy harvest.

Shiitake mushrooms grow on logs.
Vegetables

Grow your own shiitake mushrooms

Kirsten Bradley explains how to produce your own supply of delicious shiitake mushrooms.

Citrus leafminer
Pests & diseases

Pest and disease threats

Penny Woodward suggests two threats to your harvest to look out for in your garden now: citrus leafminer and powdery mildew.

Capsicums love our climate.
Vegetables

Growing colourful capsicum

These beauties come in a vibrant array of shapes, colours and flavours and with careful nurturing can be an essential part of summer vegie patch, writes Helen McKerral.

You can either go foraging for blackberries or grow them yourself.
Fruit & nuts

Growing blackberries in abundance

Summer is time for fresh berries and Justin Russell tells us we can grow them in our backyards in abundance - a chance to ditch the plastic and have your own supply!

Elder flowers
Flowers, shrubs & trees

Elder trees

These trees have been associated with magic and witchcraft for a long time, explains Penny Woodward.

Coloured lettuces
Vegetables

Lettuces all year round

Penny Woodward says that with the variety of lettuces available, you should never be without leaves to add to your salads all year round.

Tomatoes are a favourite here at Organic Gardener!
Vegetables

Tomato growing success

You can never have too many tomatoes in your harvesting basket! And with these tips from Helen McKerral you are sure to have plenty to share.

Dwarf pineapples.
Fruit & nuts

Get started with pineapples

Growing a pineapple can be as simple as twisting the top off an existing fruit and planting it.

You can mix up different varieties of zinnias for a colourful garden.
Flowers, shrubs & trees

Plant colourful summer zinnias

Looking for an easygoing plant that doesn’t mind the heat of summer and does equally well in sprawling gardens or containers on balconies? Zinnias are the answer.