Zucchini Frame Update

With wet and windy weather dominating, PHIL DUDMAN’s zucchini frame is proving it’s worth.

The Need for Speed

If you're not careful, the spring planting window can quickly come and go, leaving the vegie garden short on home grown food. Thank goodness for fast growing crops that produce a yield in a matter of weeks, not months, writes JUSTIN RUSSELL.

How to train organic zucchini/courgettes

PHIL DUDMAN’s organic zucchinis have been framed, and he explains why.

Spring vegie head start

Gardeners in warm areas are busy planting out their organic spring crops. With a little protection, you can give seedlings a head start in cold areas too. PHIL DUDMAN, shares a few ideas for a simple homemade coldframe.

Mad about Kale

Ever since I saw Peter Cundall drinking boiled kale juice like an elixir of youth, I’ve been mad about growing and eating it myself, says PHIL DUDMAN.

All Hail King Kale

Kale is one of the easiest, and most nutritous vegies to grow during winter. JUSTIN RUSSELL sings its praises, and gives some ideas for kale to be used in the kitchen.

How to grow the three sisters: conclusion

Watermelon lets the side down as the trial doesn’t go entirely to plan, reports SIMON WEBSTER.

Why I love Wombok

Give me a Chinese Cabbage before a European Cabbage any day, reports PHIL DUDMAN

How to plant peas

The conditions are perfect for planting peas. PHIL DUDMAN shares his secrets for a bumper organic harvest.

How to grow the three sisters: part 3

The rats have been seen off, for now, and all three sisters are growing, reports SIMON WEBSTER.

Salad greens that survive the wet

Choosing the right plants is crucial to producing food during a wet summer, says SIMON WEBSTER.

Go kumara go

If you struggle to grow decent crop of spuds in the summer then why don’t you try sweet potato, says PHIL DUDMAN, and now is the time to get planting.