Fast-growing greens to fill garden gaps

Autumn is a good time to plant fast-growing green to help fill garden gaps when your summer harvest is over.

How to grow silverbeet

Karen Sutherland says this versatile veg is her steady, reliable, go-to plant, with its long harvest time and ability to self-seed. Here's her top tips for growing.

Add spice with chillies

Jian Liu loves growing and eating chillies and capsicums, from the hot to the mild. Here’s how to get started in your own garden and choose what’s right for you.

Time to grow squash

There's a surprisingly diverse and super-productive range of squash – and you only need a few plants to feed a family.

Tropical fruits you can grow in your backyard

Tropical fruits thrive in summer, which is also a good time to plant and establish them before the cool weather arrives. Phil Dudman profiles some of the popular choices.

Top tips to get ready for summer holidays

Whether you are heading out of town or staying home to spend time in your garden, here's some tips from our experts to prepare for the rest of summer and beat the heat.

A blooming summer

Grow these beautiful blooms to attract pollinators to your garden and fill your patch with summer colour!

How to beat the summer heat

Helen McKerral has plenty of tricks to help keep vegies happy and productive throughout the summer months, including choosing heat-tolerant varieties. 

Grow colourful corn!

Corn in all its colours and types thrives in our hot summers and can be packed into a small space making it an ideal backyard vegie, writes Jian Liu.

Time to grow tomatoes

These tips from our horticultural experts will help you have a bumper tomato harvest.

Spring floral beauties

Looking for flowering plants for your spring garden? Justin Russell suggests adding these four bright blooms - they'll bring both colour and pollinators to your patch!

Try your hand at yams

You can tap into the highly sustaining qualities of yams, whether you have a cool or warm climate garden, writes Karen Sutherland.