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! CARROTS (Daucas carota)Carrots comes in all shapes and sizes - round, red, orange, purple, white, pakistani, baby, long, fin...
Planting winter vegiesAutumn is a great time for for planting all your winter vegies, if you haven't already started, what are you waiting for? It's a little late to start sowing seeds for vegetables such as Cauliflower and Broccoli, so pop down to your local nursery and get some seedlings. Winter vegetables which should...
APPLESPick 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. With smaller cultivars on the market they now fit into our backyards...
Save your own vegetable seed to save money and to buy a great sense of satisfaction. Now is the time to save the seed of tomato, watermelon, cucumber, eggplant, basil, rocket, capsicum and chilli. Here’s how: Step 1: Pick your vegetable: we’ve chosen to save the seeds of a very tasty tomato. Cut in half ...
Olives grow well in a sunny courtyard or balcony. Plant into a large tub with top grade potting mix. You can grow olive informally as a shrub, or trained flat onto a screen as an espalier.Olive grows as an attractive evergreen, silvery foliaged tree. Highly drought and frost tolerant, this hardy tree is long living. The olive is...