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With spring just around the corner, we prep you for busy days in the garden. Grow delicious brambleberries, discover the colourful world of heirloom corn, and plant flowers to bring bees buzzing into your patch.

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From 900-year-old carrots, to apples and oranges that arrived with the First Fleet, we show you just how easy it is to grow your own heirloom fruit and vegies. Plus, we share the delights of bygone beauties: flowers, rare chooks and pigs, and hand-forged tools. Available from 5 July 2018.

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As the weather warms up Penny Woodward explains why it's good to mulch your pots.

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Training brambleberries

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Justin Russell introduces the world of heirloom corn, including eating, flour and popping cultivars. 

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Making the citrus cut

Phil Dudman explains how to prune citrus trees, in his HMAA Award-winning article.

'Purple Top Milan' turnips

Turn it up!

It's time we turned the spotlight back onto the humble turnip, writes Justin Russell.

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Backyard chickens

Check out the chook palace in the Patch from Scratch garden and see Alex and Costa as they release the chooks! in this episode of ABC TV Gardening Australia.

 

Safe soil

How safe is your soil? Professor Mark Taylor from Macquarie University's VegeSafe program tests the soil in the Patch from Scratch garden in this epidode of ABC TV Gardening Australia.

 

Garlic varieties

Learn about different garlic varieties to grow now with our horticultural editor and garlic guru, Penny Woodward in this video from ABC TV Gardening Australia.

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