Protecting your plants from pests

Deploying a range of barriers and exclusion products will help protect your crops from marauding creatures.

Edible natives: lilly pillies

This popular native plant is easy-to-grow with colourful edible fruits, just pick the right species to suit your garden space.

From garden to kitchen: celery

Celery is a versatile plant worth adding to your vegie patch, especially as its nutritious leaves, stems and seeds are all edible.

Lovely leeks

Leeks are best planted in autumn and winter so they can then happily grow and provide you with tasty ingredients for soups and pies.

Our favourite winter crops

Our writers love growing all sorts of fresh veg in their gardens but we discovered that they do have favourite plants. Here are the top winter picks from three of our long-term contributors.

Where do pests go in winter?

Some pests can handle the cold, others can't. Regardless, nature has equipped them with a way to deal with the chill.

Top tip for growing asparagus

Growing asparagus may take some time, but the reward is worth it! This tip will help you get started.

Earwigs and woolly aphids

Here's how to naturally control two pesky pests that have the potential to do permanent damage to your garden.

Grow: Everlasting daisies

One of the most vibrant and reliable of the everlasting daisies ‘Diamond Head’ does well in pots or in the ground.

Citrus growing tips for small spaces

Whether you choose a dwarf variety or one of the citrus listed here, you'll be able to start your fruit tree collection or add to the trees you already have.

Add to your patch: turmeric

Turmeric is easy to grow, and with its varied uses its worth adding to your vegie patch. The best bit? It can be grown root with one or two buds.

Grow pears this winter

Pears taste delicious and their trees are very adaptable, thriving in a wide climatic range. Here's how to grow your own.