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​Mail Order Vegetable Seed Supplies

​Mail Order Vegetable Seed Supplies

We like to buy our vegetable seeds from trusted mail order seed companies, this way we get a considerable range of varieties for a lifetime of experimentation and flavour. Here are our favourites.

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10 things you didn’t know about fruit flies

10 things you didn’t know about fruit flies

Robin Powell reports from behind enemy lines on the fascinating, infuriating fruit fly.

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5 steps to starting a veggie patch from scratch

5 steps to starting a veggie patch from scratch

Isolation at home is much easier when you have a nice project. Ever wanted to grow your own veggies but never knew where to start? Here are five steps to consider when starting a patch from scratch.

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Apples

Apples

Pick delicious crisp apples from your own Garden of Eden! Apples are commonly grown in Victoria, Tasmania and cooler areas of western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales, and are becoming easier to grow due to improved disease resistance.

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Asparagus

Asparagus

Home-grown asparagus is easy, but it’s not quick. You’ll need to wait three years from planting before you can harvest a bunch of tender green spears, but the wait will have been worth it, and the asparagus patch will keep on giving for decades. Linda Ross shares her growing tips.

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August Jobs

August Jobs

Daffodil displays are the prize in August. It's time to get out there and enjoy them.

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Beetroot

Beetroot

This versatile and nutritious vegetable can be grated, shredded, boiled or roasted. It can be a pickle, a soup, a dip, a side dish, a main event or a salad. It is a great match for fetta cheese, goat’s cheese, walnuts, hazelnuts, horseradish, yoghurt, cumin, pine nuts, oranges, dill, mint and rocket. Not quite convinced the beet deserves a place in your patch? Consider this: the leaves can also be eaten, cooked when harvested, or picked young leaf by leaf to add colour and flavour to a mixed salad.

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Berries

Berries

Growing berries is not a cinch - they have fierce thorns, troublesome pruning rules and require commitment (and hardware) to keep wildlife away from ripening fruit. But if berry-stained lips sound to you like a rich reward, take notes from Linda’s masterclass, and plant in winter.

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Best crops for small plots

Best crops for small plots

Even the smallest balcony plots can produce crops from an interesting range of small-fruited, ‘patio’-sized vegetables. Linda Ross shares tips on making it work.

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Best-ever roast potatoes

Best-ever roast potatoes

Want the best-ever roast potatoes? Simple, delicious and deeply comforting the humble roast spud is a must-have in the cook’s bag of tricks. Here are a few of our favourite versions.

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Broad Beans

Broad Beans

Broad beans offer one of spring’s best seasonal flavours. And as well as tasting good they enrich the soil with nitrogen, and handle the toughest frosts so can be planted now in all areas of Australia. 

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Brussels Sprouts

Brussels Sprouts

The much-derided Brussels sprout is delicious when grown fresh and cooked quickly. Here’s how.

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Carrots

Carrots

We are harvesting handfuls of delicious carrots and using them in a variety of ways in the kitchen. Sow spring, summer and autumn, all year in mild areas. So buy a packet today and get crunching!

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Cauliflower

Cauliflower

In a classic segment of ‘River Cottage’ host Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall damns the cauliflower, describing it as insipid and boring.  Not fair. While caulis can devolve into tasteless watery mush when treated badly in the kitchen, the best
varieties are packed with flavor.


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Cauliflower

Cauliflower

Justin Russell says cauliflower is no cheesy addition to the vegetable patch; it’s a stand-alone star. 

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Chilli

Chilli

Spice up your life with the aroma and piquancy of chilli. Measured on a rating from one to over two million, there is a chilli to suit all taste buds from the chilli-phobic to the chilli-freak. 

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Chinese style Brussels sprouts

Chinese style Brussels sprouts

The European sprout gets an Asian makeover in this tasty stir fry.

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Companion Planting 1

Companion Planting 1

Companion planting is about wisely using plants to reduce the work of the gardener. These are our favourite garden workers.

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Companion Planting 2

Companion Planting 2

We love any strategy that reduces human intervention in the vegetable garden. Here are a few of our favourite tips for creating a productive garden with less personal effort.

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Composting

Composting

All too often gardeners start composting with great excitement and enthusiasm, only for interest to wane as the results disappoint. Here is a quick guide to help you produce the best compost in whatever composting bin you choose.

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Cool season vegetable guide

Cool season vegetable guide

Many vegetable gardeners believe that the date to start planting cool season crops is on the first day of winter. Big mistake. The time to start winter crops is early autumn. 

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Crop Rotation

Crop Rotation

Passionate vegetable gardeners and those looking for a holistic approach will want a way of rotating their crops for maximum benefit, health and harvest. 

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Cucumbers

Cucumbers

Cool as a cucumber is the taste of summer.

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Cucumbers

Cucumbers

Cool as a cucumber is the taste of summer.

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Cuttings from the Garden World

Cuttings from the Garden World

Here's what's happening  in the garden world this winter.

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Delicious: Lentil’s summer breakfast bowl

Delicious: Lentil’s summer breakfast bowl

Breakfast eggs get a super-fresh makeover in this dish from ‘The Village’ by Matt and Lentil from Grown and Gathered.

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Delicious: Sweet potato and chickpea curry

Delicious: Sweet potato and chickpea curry

Sweet potato and chickpea curry is comfort food of the first order - warming, satisfying and dead-simple.

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Edible Weeds

Edible Weeds

The annoying habit of weeds to grow fast (and often better than the vegetables they smother!) is good news for foragers. Follow these rules for weed eating: check and double check the identification; pick new leaves; pick leaves before flowering; pick only from areas that haven't been sprayed; and wash everything before using. These are our top 5 weeds.

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Edibles everywhere

Edibles everywhere

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Eggplant

Eggplant

Eggplants have diverse origins: Italy, Africa, Thailand, China and India. Their shapes and colours are just as diverse and provide a little visual interest in the vegie patch.

 

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Fennel

Fennel

Among the carefully chosen selection of seeds and plants that the First Fleet brought from England in 1788, was fennel. The plant has been held in high regard since Roman times, and at one stage, people believed that stuffing fennel seeds into their keyholes would keep ghosts from entering the room.

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Figs

Figs

Figs are delicious, expensive and hard to transport – three excellent reasons to grow one in your garden. Linda Ross tells how it’s done.

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Flower Farm: Summer jobs

Flower Farm: Summer jobs

We've dedicated a part of the patch to growing flowers just for picking. And the bonus? Armfuls of flowers for vases and arrangements.

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Flower farm: Winter jobs

Flower farm: Winter jobs

Here Linda gives advice and plans for winter; planting sunflowers, ranunculus, and spring bulbs; admiring the pansies, and picking winter flowers.

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Globe Artichokes

Globe Artichokes

Globe artichokes look good in the garden, taste great at the table and improve things in the bedroom! Or so they say. Libby Cameron turns the light on globe artichokes.

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Herbs / Autumn

Herbs / Autumn

Cut & come again herbs such as parsley, rocket, sorrel, chervil and coriander, prefer growing in the cooler months. Sow some seeds every month straight into the garden for a trickle harvest into the kitchen.

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Home grown: Lemons

Home grown: Lemons

The plant that gives Garden Clinic gardeners more grief than any other is the lemon. Here’s how to grow gorgeous lemons.

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Home Grown: Nashi

Home Grown: Nashi

Crisp and crunchy nashi pears are just as cold-hardy as common pears but need fewer chilling hours to produce fruit, making them a delicious choice for every climate zone in Australia.

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Homegrown: Sweet Potato

Homegrown: Sweet Potato

This delicious tuber is one of the least-demanding vegetables in the patch. All it wants is sun and space.

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How to: arrange flowers

How to: arrange flowers

I love the look of flowers picked straight from the garden and casually arranged in a charming jug, jar, urn, vase - even a bucket. But when I pick a posy from my garden and aim for a natural aesthetic with casual grace, my arrangement looks not so much just-picked as just-plonked! So I asked Sonya Gardiner for help and these are her tips - the 5 Fs of Fabulous Flower Arranging.

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