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Vegetables

Find guidance on selecting and growing the best organic vegetables for every season, tailored to your garden’s conditions.

Broccoli is a crop that keeps on giving.

Vegetables

Grow your own organic broccoli

With good preparation, you can have your own abundant harvest of fresh, nutritious vegetables through autumn and winter, writes Phil Dudman. Get started with broccoli and English spinach.

Mulch helps to insulate soil and retain moisture.

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Grow salad greens for summer

Achieving success with lettuce in hot weather relies on good cultivar choices and growing techniques, writes Arno King.

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Pumpkins: the all-season survival food

Jian Liu grows pumpkins in all sorts of places in her suburban garden, and not just because of their taste - they look great, too. They adorn her garden beds and arches, providing abundant harvests through summer and autumn. What's even better is that they store well for eating over winter.

Tomatoes come in all shapes, sizes and colours!

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Top tomatoes to grow now!

Queenslander Leonie Shanahan is one of OG’s regular contributors who share their favourite tomatoes and tips from climate zones around Australia.

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How to grow kohlrabi

Grow kohlrabi in your vegie garden and discover an ingredient that will add crunch and flavour to salads and stir-fries.

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From garden to kitchen: celery

There's plenty of uses for your celery once it's ready to be harvested, writes Karen Sutherland.

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Paul West’s favourite spuds

Spuds are one of the most productive crops you can grow, so with a little bit of judicious planting in late winter and early spring, you can experience the full breadth that is the wonderful world of potatoes, writes Paul West

Spigariello is a high-yielding brassica.

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How to grow spigariello, a high-yielding brassica

Looking for a delicious, high-yielding brassica that can be grown in a pot or in the ground? Look no further than spigariello.

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Planting peas from seed

Peas are one of the most obliging vegies to grow from seed, but a bit of planning helps to ensure they'll provide you with an abundant harvest.

'All Seasons' is a relatively quick-growing carrot.

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Grow your own root vegies for winter

Karen Sutherland suggests some super-nourishing root vegies for you to plant.

Helen grows her wasabi in an old laundry tub.

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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.

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Cool greens

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

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Grow your own shiitake mushrooms

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

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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 your summer vegie patch, writes Helen McKerral.