Tomatoes growing
What to plant

Five tips to ensure tomato growing success

With the right care, these juicy, flavour-packed fruits can thrive in your garden, providing fresh produce all season long. These five organic growing tips will get you started.

Cumbers freshly picked from a garden held in two hands.
What to plant

Cucumber: a salad essential

Fresh cucumbers straight from the garden are the best! These tips will help you grow this summer salad essential.

Chinese celery in a basket.
What to plant

Easy Asian greens to grow and eat

Asian greens are readily available at local supermarkets these days, but did you know they’re equally at home in a vegie patch?

Homemade rhubarb dessert laid out next to ingredients.
What to plant

How to grow rhubarb

Add rhubarb to your garden: it takes little care and tastes delicious (especially in sweet treats)!

Eggplant and capsicum in a basket of other vegetables.
What to plant

How to sow your capsicum and eggplant seeds in spring

Capsicums and eggplants are true summer crops that need warm conditions to grow. Here's how to get them started in spring.

Tasmanian purple.
Vegetables

Grow garlic in your backyard

Why spend a fortune buying garlic when you can grow this nutritious flavour-enhancer in your own backyard or even a pot?

Grow Phil Dudman's favourite
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Grow Phil Dudman’s favourite

Our horticultural editor Phil Dudman has discovered a new gardening joy: brussels sprouts.

'Lady Godiva' is one variety of hull-less pumpkins.
Vegetables

Grow your own pepitas

It’s easy to turn edible pumpkin seeds into a tasty snack – you just need the right varieties and these tips from Linda Cockburn.

Two yellow zucchini flowers: the male is attached to a long stem and the female has the small fruit behind.
What to plant

How to pollinate zucchini plants

The only tricky aspect of growing zucchini can be ensuring plants are pollinated and so produce the fruit that's a kitchen staple year round. These tips from Penny Woodward will help.

Tatsoi is best grown in autumn.
What to plant

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.

Silverbeet seedlings can be planted close together.
Vegetables

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.

Time to grow squash
Vegetables

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.