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Essential Guide Heirlooms Order your copy of the Essential Guide

Order your copy of the Essential Guide

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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Growing in sandy soils

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Lovely leeks

Leeks are best planted in Autumn and Winter says Penny Woodward

Tahitian lime

Limes

Limes have it all says Penny Woodward. Fragrant flowers, glossy leaves, delicious fruit.

Hen health checklist

Observation is the key to success not only in your garden but for keeping your chooks healthy, writes Jessamy Miller...

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Making the 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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