Shiitake mushrooms grow on logs.
Vegetables

Grow your own shiitake mushrooms

Kirsten Bradley explains how to produce your own supply of delicious shiitake mushrooms.

A ripe pepino.
What to plant

Pepino: a year-round rockmelon

Pepinos are not very fussy plants, they even flourish in our poor sandy soil, and produce well in a mostly shaded part of our garden.

Harvesting garlic.
Vegetables

Garlic in your garden

Homegrown garlic tastes dramatically better than any you can buy in your local supermarket, so why not grow it yourself!

Sprouts
What to plant

How to grow sprouts

All you need is a bench or windowsill and some easy-to-find equipment to grow sprouts.

Salsify seed will be blown by the wind.
Propagating

How seeds disperse naturally

Once plants start seeding in your garden, you'll be amazed where they pop up – here's how seed distribution happens, naturally.

Make your own olives in brine
Your garden harvest

Make your own olives in brine

This recipe for olives in brine is oh-so easy -- now you just need to grow the olives!

Oyster mushrooms
Vegetables

Foraging and growing your own fungi

Fungus expert and photographer Alison Pouliot explores these tasty morsels.

Coffee cherries ripe for picking
Flowers, shrubs & trees

Coffee: grow, harvest, process

Yes, you can grow coffee in Australia. Simon Webster explores the growing, harvesting and processing of coffee.

avocado
Organic solutions

‘ava go at avocados

They may be fussy plants but homegrown avocados will pay you back big time, says JUSTIN RUSSELL.

ripening pineapple
Organic solutions

She’ll be pineapples

The main requirement for growing your own sweet, juicy pineapples is a little patience, writes PHIL DUDMAN.

Burdock flower and leaves.
What to plant

Herbs: burdock

Burdock (X Arctium lappa X) may be a tough, unglamorous and thistle–like, but it has a delicious edible root and invaluable medicinal uses,