Fuss-free planting: Lebanese watercress and pepino

As urban gardens burst back to life in spring with colour and abundance, add these prolific plants to your patch to see you through the warmer months.

Garlic: how to harvest, cure and store

Get more from your garlic harvest with simple tips for curing and storing your bulbs for the year ahead.

Zucchini & cucumber: summer’s productive pair

Give these vigorous plants the right conditions and they’ll reward you with an abundance of crisp cucumbers and fresh zucchini.

Peanuts: a curious crop

There’s more to peanuts than meets the eye. Discover this fascinating crop and how to grow it in your garden.

Grow: sweet potato

The best garden plants work harder – offering colour, texture, habitat and a harvest to enjoy.

Top tasks for spring vegies

Warming weather means it’s time to prep and plant for bumper vegie harvests.

Grow: radicchio and rocket

It's easy to add a bit of spicy flavour to a meal with fresh radicchio and rocket straight from your garden.

Budget-friendly summer vegies

Grow these top money-saving summer vegies for a prolific harvest: leafy greens, beans, cucumbers, zucchini and budget herbs, with growing tips for each.

How to grow a rainbow of tomatoes

Peter Vouthas grows 60 tomato varieties a year. A step-by-step guide to growing tomatoes: seed sowing, potting on, hardening off and his top 10 picks.

Grow: tomatoes

Who doesn't love homegrown tomatoes straight off the vine? If you follow these tips you'll have a bumper harvest of these colourful beauties come spring.

The bulb and the beautiful: growing alliums

The allium family has much to offer the patient, and the impatient, gardener, from slow-growing onions to the leafy harvest of chives and spring onions, writes Marcelle Nankervis.

Autumn trio: radicchio, borage and strawberry guava

As the heat of summer softens and evenings turn cooler, autumn offers a sweet spot for gardening. While the soil is still warm, Jian Liu is planting this colourful collection.