Home Grown
How to: grow chocolate
21 December 2018 | Robin PowellWherever we take travellers in the tropics, from Mexico to Singapore, the Daintree to Cuba, there is one tree that grabs their attention - cacao, the source of our lingering love, chocolate.
Read MoreHow to: grow garlic
07 May 2015 | Linda RossApril is garlic-planting time and it’s easier than you think to grow a year’s supply for your family.
Read MoreHow to: grow mushrooms
25 April 2015 | Linda RossButton mushrooms are easy to grow at home.
Read MoreHow to: grow stepover apples
16 March 2015 | Robin PowellBob Magnus (owner of Woodbridge, Tasmania) sells four different varieties of apples grafted onto extra-dwarf rootstock. These trees are designed to grow as a one-metre-high hedge. They are pretty and productive in an edible or ornamental garden. Choose all four for many months of fresh apples. Here’s how Bob recommends growing apples as a stepover.
Read MoreHow to: grow strawberries from seed
25 April 2015 | Linda RossStrawberry seed packet holds well over 100 seeds and with a recommended retail price of $3.50 its the most economical way to grow your strawberries.
Read MoreHow to: grow your own ratatouille
22 May 2015 | Linda RossRatatouille will convert the most meat-loving individual into a vegetarian – if only for one night! It was originally a common dish, prepared in the summer with fresh summer vegetables.
Read MoreHow to: grow your vegies on the verge
26 February 2015 | Linda RossWe are fortunate to have a reasonably big space in our garden that we can allocate simply to growing food. Other gardeners make the most of space on a sunny balcony or terrace. If that’s not an option for you either, consider what might done on the verge!
Read MoreHow to: growing vegetables from seed
22 December 2018 | Arno KingPlanting punnets of vegetable seedlings is easy, but it is much more cost-effective and more fulfilling - not to mention offering wider choice and better results - to sow seed directly into the garden. The key is to sow plants suited to your climate, at the appropriate time of year.
Read MoreHow to: herb feast
16 March 2015 | Isla BarlowSkye, Eden and Isla love to collect fresh herbs from the garden to add to dinner. Herbs are easy to grow: a perfectly delicious project for the summer holidays.
Read MoreHow to: make a summer vegetable tepee
12 March 2015 | Linda RossFor space saving nothing beats a tepee! A single structure will provide 36kg of cherry tomatoes, cucumber and green beans over a 3 month stretch.
Read MoreHow to: make comfrey tea
15 May 2015 | Linda RossThis home-grown fertiliser contains more potash and more nitrogen than commercial feeds, and costs only the price of a bucket and its water. Your vegetables will love it, especially your strawberries at the end of winter and next season tomatoes.
Read MoreHow to: Make Potting Mix
01 October 2015 | Linda RossPlants in pots need the right nutrients, water, air and a quality potting mix to live happily ever after.
Read MoreHow to: pickle cucumbers
13 November 2019 | Linda RossWhen cucumbers are on, you may find you have more than enough for salads, sandwiches and crudite platters. The secret - pickles. Our favourite recipe is from Cornersmith: Recipes from the Cafe and Picklery by Alex Elliott-Howery and James Grant.
Read MoreHow to: use coconut peat
31 May 2018 | Arno KIngNeed a lightweight, easily stored, highly effective potting medium? Look no further than this byproduct of coconut production, which has advantages for plants as well as gardners.
Read MoreHow to: use your pea harvest
15 May 2015 | Robin PowellPeas are one of those crops that can make the home gardener feel smugly self-satisfied because they taste so good fresh from the garden.
Read MoreIn my Kitchen Garden
20 December 2018 | Kate NealeIn the first of a new series that shares the knowledge and experience of food growers around the country, Kate Neale dishes the dirt on her top summer growing tips and her favourite new harvest.
Read MoreIn my kitchen garden: Camden, NSW
28 February 2019 | Mickey RobertsonMickey Robertson’s kitchen garden at Glenmore House is as beautiful as it is productive, experimental and instructive.
Read MoreIn the garden: June
20 May 2019 | Linda Ross
It's time to get the jump on the cold this June and prepare the garden for the mid-winter chill
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In the garden: May
28 February 2019 | Robin PowellBack by popular demand - our reminders of what to do in the garden this season.
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In the Temperate Kitchen Garden this autumn
15 May 2018 | Linda RossThe temperate kitchen garden in autumn is all about planning for winter, planting hearty veg and preserving your harvest for the colder months. Linda Ross has plenty of tips on what you can do in your patch right now.
Read MoreIt's time to: Temperate gardens in June
06 June 2017 | Elizabeth SwaneAfter a big growing season, early winter offers an opportunity to restore a little order. Sharpen those secateurs and get ready, because it's time to whip things into shape in the temperate garden this June
Read MoreKitchen garden Artichoke
19 December 2016 | Justin RussellThough globe artichokes are simple to grow, preparing them for the table involves that rarest of modern commodities - time. But if you’ve ever eaten freshly
cooked artichokes you know the several processes involved amount to small effort for delicious reward.
Kitchen Garden Jobs winter 2017
08 June 2017 | Linda RossIn the Kitchen Garden this winter Linda Ross is composting, planting winter veg and planning for the future.
Read MoreKitchen Garden Spring Jobs
01 September 2017 | Linda RossThis spring try something new: a vertical pumpkin patch; a fence line of sweet potato or a hanging basket filled with the sweetest, most productive strawberry ever.
Read MoreKitchen Garden Spring: Soft Herbs
01 September 2017 | Linda RossThe key to a thriving herb garden is to give each plant the conditions it needs to prosper. The result is easy gardening, and delicious pickings. Here Linda Ross shows you her favourites and the conditions they need to thrive in spring.
Read MoreKitchen garden subtropical
06 September 2018 | Arno KingArno is a garden designer and writer whose garden in Brisbane is mostly edible. He is constantly testing the received garden wisdom for its relevance to subtropical gardeners, and trialing new products. Let's see what Arno's growing this spring
Read MoreKitchen Garden Summer
18 December 2015 | Linda RossSummer brings the vegetable patch’s peak of production. The heat of the sun powers growth, but threatens disaster too. Rise with the birds for early deep watering, and let your mantra be mulch, mulch, mulch.
Read MoreKitchen Garden winter jobs
01 June 2016 | Linda Ross
Warm up this winter with a new project to increase your home harvests: compost bin, worm farm, raised beds, chicken coop, citrus wall? Now’s the time to get stuck in.
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Kitchen Garden: Autumn
29 April 2016 | Linda RossWe’re picking basket-loads of dark green kale, snacking on mandarins, pickling the beetroot harvest and turning the last tomatoes into bottles of sauce. From patch to plate autumn is full of colour and flavour.
Read MoreKitchen Garden: Autumn
20 April 2015 | Linda RossAutumn is the crowded moment in the vegetable garden when warm season vegetables reach their peak harvest and the cool season crops are keen to get in the ground. Here’s how we manage it.
Read MoreKitchen garden: Rhubarb
13 June 2017 | Linda RossRhubarb is one of the few perennial vegetables. A clump will produce tangy, juicy stems season after season with almost no effort from the gardener.
Read MoreKitchen Garden: Spring
11 February 2015 |We love picking dinner fresh from the vegie patch. Everything tastes so much better! Spring is a busy time in the edible garden. Here are our tips and tricks for a bumper summer harvest.
Read MoreKitchen garden: Spring jobs
17 September 2015 | Linda RossThere’s inspiration here to help expand your vegetable repertoire – in the garden and on the plate!
Read MoreKitchen Garden: Spring Planting
03 March 2015 | Linda RossIt’s time to pull out winter crops to make room for summer’s great produce. Here Linda Ross shares her know-how and experience about what to plant now to keep a family of four enjoying delicious home-grown food all through summer.
Read MoreKitchen Garden: Subtropical summer
28 November 2017 | Arno KingGardening for the kitchen in the subtropics? Our resident tropical garden expert Arno King has the lowdown on all the seasonal jobs, as well as the tips and tricks to get things happening in the subtropical kitchen garden.
Read MoreKitchen Garden: subtropical winter
01 June 2018 | Arno KingArno is a garden designer and writer whose garden in Brisbane is mostly edible. He is constantly testing the received garden wisdom for its relevance to subtropical gardeners, and trialling new products. Lets see what Arno's growing this winter
Read MoreKitchen Garden: Summer
11 February 2015 |Summer is all about harvest: buckets of tomatoes, cucumbers and beans are flooding into the kitchen. The only challenge is finding enough tomato recipes!
Read MoreKitchen Garden: Summer Herbs
14 February 2018 | Linda RossPlenty of summer herbs need the heat of the sun to intensify their flavour. Here Linda Ross lists her pick of the bunch.
[text] Read MoreKitchen Gardens: Peas
06 September 2018 | Linda RossNothing tastes like spring quite as much a sweet pea - whether freshly podded, or enjoyed pod and all. The only trick is to get the peas to the kitchen before the children eat them all off the vines!
Read MoreKitchen Gardens: Temperate
06 September 2018 | Linda RossSpringtime in the temperate kitchen garden is time for soil preparation, tomato planting, and building structures for vine crops.
Read MoreKnow your winter bulbs
21 May 2020 | Linda RossWhen autumn leaves have fallen, elegant little floral petticoats burst from the soil in optimistic, spring-anticipating growth.
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Know your: balcony flowers
20 December 2018 | Linda RossAdd some summer dazzle to a sunny balcony with these pot-loving beauties.
Read MoreKnow your: indoor plants
06 September 2018 | Linda RossPlants make indoor spaces beautiful and people happy. Here are a few easy-care options to start - or enlarge! - your indoor garden.
Read MoreLemon Delicious
21 May 2020 | Robin PowellSelf-saucing puddings are a dessert staple at my place through winter, and the tangy, silky lushness of an old-fashioned lemon delicious is a favourite. I like it with icing sugar sprinkled on top and whipped cream on the side, but my kids always vote for the hot/cold thrill of vanilla ice cream as an accompaniment. If you like, instead of serving from a pudding dish, you can cook the puddings in six individual one-cup ovenproof dishes.
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Macadamia
06 March 2015 | Linda RossThere’s more to a macadamia than a chocolate-coated, or salted, roasted nut. This plant might provide our best known and loved native food, but it’s also a beautiful shade tree for a medium-sized garden. Linda Ross shares the good oil on growing the king of the nuts in your own garden.
Read MoreMacadamia integrifolia
06 March 2015 | Ally JacksonThe macadamia hails from Queensland and northern NSW but for a long time it was better known in Hawaii than in its homeland.
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