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.

Spring trio: zinnias, watermelons, shiso

Learn more about three stand-out spring plants to fill your backyard with colour: cheerful zinnias, sweet watermelons and citrusy shiso.

Pickled gherkins

Experiencing a cucumber glut in your garden? That's not such a bad thing, even if you have heaps in your patch. Our advice? Start pickling!

Planning your garden

It's a good idea to do what is called succession planting so you don't end up with too little or too much of the vegies you love best. Here's how to go about it.

ABC radio grows their own organic vegies

ABC Staff walk the Grow-Your-Own talk by building their own organic vegie patch at the Lismore studios, reports PHIL DUDMAN