Cumbers freshly picked from a garden held in two hands.
What to plant

Cucumber: a salad essential

Fresh cucumbers straight from the garden are the best! These tips will help you grow this summer salad essential.

Homemade rhubarb dessert laid out next to ingredients.
What to plant

How to grow rhubarb

Add rhubarb to your garden: it takes little care and tastes delicious (especially in sweet treats)!

Eggplant and capsicum in a basket of other vegetables.
What to plant

How to sow your capsicum and eggplant seeds in spring

Capsicums and eggplants are true summer crops that need warm conditions to grow. Here's how to get them started in spring.

How to grow wombok
What to plant

How to grow wombok

Add this Asian green to your patch for a fresh addition to stir-fries, salads and soups. You'll also have the main ingredient to make kimchi.

Grow Phil Dudman's favourite
What to plant

Grow Phil Dudman’s favourite

Our horticultural editor Phil Dudman has discovered a new gardening joy: brussels sprouts.

'Lady Godiva' is one variety of hull-less pumpkins.
Vegetables

Grow your own pepitas

It’s easy to turn edible pumpkin seeds into a tasty snack – you just need the right varieties and these tips from Linda Cockburn.

Two yellow zucchini flowers: the male is attached to a long stem and the female has the small fruit behind.
What to plant

How to pollinate zucchini plants

The only tricky aspect of growing zucchini can be ensuring plants are pollinated and so produce the fruit that's a kitchen staple year round. These tips from Penny Woodward will help.

Tatsoi is best grown in autumn.
What to plant

Fast-growing greens to fill garden gaps

Autumn is a good time to plant fast-growing green to help fill garden gaps when your summer harvest is over.

Silverbeet seedlings can be planted close together.
Vegetables

How to grow silverbeet

Karen Sutherland says this versatile veg is her steady, reliable, go-to plant, with its long harvest time and ability to self-seed. Here's her top tips for growing.

Time to grow squash
Vegetables

Time to grow squash

There's a surprisingly diverse and super-productive range of squash – and you only need a few plants to feed a family.

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.