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Essential Guide - Backyard Chickens
All you need to know to keep your chooks healthy and happy, in a 124 page book-quality magazine.
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Happy as a chook out of mud
It’s important to make your chicken shed waterproof, SIMON WEBSTER reports.
Tommies in May?
If you are determined to grow tomatoes, why not try some of the wonderful array of heirloom varieties with diverse colours and flavours.
Composters do a good turn
It’s time for International Composting Awareness Week, SIMON WEBSTER reports.
Organic strategies for household pests
It's one thing to be organic outside in the garden, but all too easy to slip into conventional thinking inside the house. JUSTIN RUSSELL outlines some basic strategies for organic pest control around the home.
In your patch - May 2013
Cath from Central West has sent in some great photos of her backyard garden.
We love seeing what’s growing in your patch! Keep the photos coming and email them to organicgardener@your.abc.net.au
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More fowl
Here's some more pictures of chickens, ducks and other fowl that wouldn't fit in the Essential Guide: Backyard Chickens issue.
Mushroom compost and pests
In the May/June issue of Organic Gardener magazine, JERRY COLEBY-WILLIAMS digs into the mysterious world of fungi and how to grow your own.
NICK ROMANOWSKI and Jerry offer some additional information about making mushroom compost, and some of the pests and diseases that can affect these fungi.
Peter Cooper’s cider making
In the May/June 2013 issue of Organic Gardener magazine, JUSTIN RUSSELL delves into the history of cider, growing cider apples and perry pears, and how to make your own tasty brew.
Here, Peter Cooper, of Wychwood Nursery in Tasmania, provides more detail about home cider making.
New life for old pears
PETER CUNDALL says pears have magnifcent textures, flavours and blooms, deserving a place in both the edible and ornamental garden.
Old pear trees can be brought back into regular production by selective winter pruning, as he describes here.
Recipes from the soil up
For renowned chef (and keen gardener) Peter Gilmore, the connection between food and nature is vital.
His new book, Quay, Food Inspired by Nature, features beautiful cuisine that is as delectable to look at as it is to eat, writes JACQUELINE FORSTER.
Chaffed to Bits
In the March/April 2013 issue of Organic Gardener magazine, reader Cynthia Titmarsh told of her experiment, with husband Richard, to grow a backyard wheat crop.
Cynthia’s letter came in response to two articles in late 2011 by Nick Romanowski on growing backyard grain crops. We have held off publishing her letter until now - wheat-planting time. To set the scene, here are these two articles, from the September/October 2011 and November/December 2011 issues of Organic Gardener magazine.
Pollinating zucchinis
Wondering why your zucchinis won’t develop properly? The garden guru PHIL DUDMAN helps you solve this problem.
Watch how to ensure that your flowers develop fruit, by pollinating them yourself.
Phil's simple watermelon frame
Whether tomatoes, melons or peas, supporting your plants with frames and trellises encourages healthy crops and saves space, writes PHIL DUDMAN.
Watch how to construct a simple A frame, and support fruit and other crops on bamboo trellises.
Broccoli and Potato Soup
Broccoli can be anything but boring. Just ask PHIL DUDMAN and JULIE RAY who have found creative ways of turning this winter staple into a tasty treat that even the kids will love.
