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Basics

Learn the principles of organic gardening, from planning the most efficient use of your space to building a hothouse, saving seeds and how to deal with shady spots.

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Top tips for making the most of your garden’s growing potential

Armed with a bunch of clever techniques and ideas, it’s easy to maximise your garden’s potential and enjoy an abundant supply of fresh, organic, homegrown produce.

Leafy greens including rocket and mizuna.

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Crops you can start in late winter

It’s still cold outside for many, but you can start some of your favourite crops in late winter so that when the warmer weather arrives you are ready to go.

Seedlings sitting in a window sill for extra light and warmth.

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Start your spring crops early

Get your spring crops off to an early start by mimicking the growing conditions they’d usually expect in mid- to late spring.

The common brown butterfly settled on gum leaves.

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Bring in the butterflies

Gardener, educator and author Jaclyn Crupi wants us all to help protect and support native wildlife – starting with butterflies that bring beauty, as well as adding pollinating power.

Urban gardener Kat Laver with a basket of her homegrown vegetables.

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Small space gardening tips

Kat Lavers lives in Melbourne and has a garden filled with a wide variety of edible plants. Here are her tips for small space gardening success.

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Heeling in bare-rooted trees

If you can't plant your bare-rooted trees straightaway, you can do what’s called ‘heeling in’. Plus, some basic planting tips.

Setting up punnets with soil, ready for planting seeds.

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Planting in punnets

Starting vegies in punnets will mean you have crops ready to plant out, no matter the season or conditions. Here's how.

Gardener using a hoe to turnover top of the soil in a vegetable garden.

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Join the no-dig revolution

There's a growing number of gardeners who have hung up the spade and adopted the no-dig approach. Phil Dudman explains why.

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The importance of using mulch and saving seeds

If you are an Organic Gardener reader, you know there are many essential tools we like to use in our gardens. Mulch is one of them, as is saving seeds. Here's why.