Protect your lawn with trees

Think trees and lawns don’t mix? Discover how the right trees can help your grass thrive through hot, dry conditions.

Grow: scabiosa

With charming pincushion blooms and plenty of nectar for garden visitors, scabiosa is a hardworking flower worth growing.

A celebration of young gardeners

The 2026 winners of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation awards are proof that a vegie patch can grow much more than food. Meet the inspiring schools and early learning services turning gardens into places to grow, learn, cook and connect.

Win! 1 of five tote & tray gift sets

Enter our competition today for a chance to add some spring colour to your day!

When more is less

The more the land, the more ambitious Simon Webster’s gardening vision became. 

The accidental gardener

Simon Webster cottons on to a new way of gardening – expect the unexpected – at Plot Farm.

Tassie Tales 2

After a year’s break, Linda Cockburn once again takes up the story of her family’s self-reliant lifestyle in Tasmania. The roof is just about to go on the sustainable house, the food garden is expanding– and so are the numbers of marauding wildlife.

The Tassie Tales

Linda Cockburn cheers as the house plans are approved – but then the goat gets through the garden fence. (First published in 2004, and republished as part of our 100th issue.)

What’s on my food?

Malcolm McGuire investigates what’s being sprayed on our crops, and some of the worst offenders. 

Turning food to bioplastics

Two brothers are turning plant-based food waste into bioplastics, writes Dr Reese Halter.

War on Waste

Inspired by the ABC’s War on Waste, Jessamy Miller shares invaluable tips and techniques for reducing, reusing and recycling.    

Drip irrigation for containers

Helen McKerral gives a step-by-step guide to setting up a simple pot irrigation system.