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How to: grow kirengoshoma

How to: grow kirengoshoma

Michael McCoy spills the beans on one of the cool climate, autumn-flowering gems that turn temperate gardeners green with envy.

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How to: grow lilies

How to: grow lilies

For wow factor in the summer garden it’s hard to go past lilies, and a new bunch of liliums is now opening bold big blooms across the country. 

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How to: grow mushrooms

How to: grow mushrooms

Button mushrooms are easy to grow at home.

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How to: grow polyanthus

How to: grow polyanthus

Our flower of choice for winter colour this year is polyanthus (Primula x polyantha). Usually brushed aside for the showier primulas, poppies, pansies or cyclamen, we think they deserve attention for their vibrant, happy colours and sterling resilience.

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How to: grow snowdrops

How to: grow snowdrops

The true snowdrop is a delicate pearly bell only suited to cool climates. Michael McCoy is a fan.

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How to: grow sprouts

How to: grow sprouts

Skye, Eden and Isla are growing their own sprouts to add to sandwiches and salads. 

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How to: grow stepover apples

How to: grow stepover apples

Bob 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.

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How to: grow strawberries from seed

How to: grow strawberries from seed

Strawberry 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. 

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How to: grow tulips

How to: grow tulips

Find some time this summer holiday to create a wonderful picture of tulips. 

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How to: grow your own ratatouille

How to: grow your own ratatouille

Ratatouille 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.

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How to: growing vegetables from seed

How to: growing vegetables from seed

Planting 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.

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How to: herb feast

How to: herb feast

Skye, 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.

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How to: keep chickens

How to: keep chickens

Chickens are endearing and easy pets to keep. And they provide free nutritious fertiliser for your garden, eat your kitchen scraps and deliver delicious free-range eggs for years to come!

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How to: keep native bees

How to: keep native bees

Every weekend people call us on the Garden Clinic radio show on 2GB complaining of poor yields in their vegetable garden due to lack of pollination. One answer? Follow Matthew Carroll’s lead and keep native bees.

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How to: lay a lawn

How to: lay a lawn

Did you know? The average turf backyard captures carbon and produces enough oxygen for a family of four?

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How to: lush the lawn

How to: lush the lawn

Strong healthy lawns cope better in winter, stay greener longer and out-compete weeds. Here’s our autumn checklist for lush lawns.


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How to: lush the lawn

How to: lush the lawn

Come the warmer weather and the lawn needs a makeover! Follow these simple steps to grow the lush green carpet of grass you’ve always wanted.

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How to: make a flowering barrow

How to: make a flowering barrow

Eden, Isla and Skye have planted up a hot pink wheelbarrow to add dazzle to the back garden. It can easily be shifted to give the best view from indoors, or to catch the most sun. Let your imagination go wild!

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How to: make a garden bridge

How to: make a garden bridge

While most of us don’t have a lake, our gardens may still benefit by a bridge used to link different sections across a ‘stream’ of garden bed, or dry creek of stones.

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How to: make a garden in a glass

How to: make a garden in a glass

Bottle gardens or terrariums are mini plant worlds to enjoy indoors. 

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How to: make a garden-grown smoothie

How to: make a garden-grown smoothie

How do we get through all the greens we grow in the garden? We drink armfuls of them – as a green smoothie for lunch a few times a week. Call it a Ross family secret for more energy and verve! 

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How to: make a labyrinth

How to: make a labyrinth

Michael Stevens, a paediatric oncologist at the Children’s Hospital, Westmead, in Sydney, hopes to have a labyrinth built in the grounds of the hospital for the use of patients and their families. He says a labyrinth is a perfect tool for meditation, and he has been so convincing enough a site for one is being negotiated.

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How to: make a painted succulent bowl

How to: make a painted succulent bowl

Succulents can survive long periods of dry weather so they are great plants for people who forget to water! Isla paints up a pot to match a succulent selection.

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How to: make a spiral topiary

How to: make a spiral topiary

A spiral topiary makes just as good a focal point in a small domestic garden as it does in grand gardens like the one shown here. 

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How to: make a strawberry pot

How to: make a strawberry pot

Isla is looking forward to picking sweet fresh strawberries to eat with ice cream this summer. Follow her tips for your own homegrown dessert!

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How to: make a summer vegetable tepee

How to: make a summer vegetable tepee

For space saving nothing beats a tepee! A single structure will provide 36kg of cherry tomatoes, cucumber and green beans over a 3 month stretch.

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How to: make a sweet pea tepee

How to: make a sweet pea tepee

Isla is planning ahead by planting up a tepee of sweet peas. Come spring it will be a towering cone of sweet-smelling pretty flowers.

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How to: make a terrarium

How to: make a terrarium

Bring the fun indoors this winter with a miniature fern garden for the coffee table. Linda Ross tells how it’s done.

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How to: make a wreath

How to: make a wreath

A Christmas wreath made with flowers and foliage from your own garden beats the dazzle of commercial baubles and tinsel

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How to: make comfrey tea

How to: make comfrey tea

This 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.

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How to: make fruit ice-blocks

How to: make fruit ice-blocks

When it’s sweltering outside and the kids need some cool relief, homemade fruity ice-blocks are the answer. When they’ve been demolished, ask the children to help make a new batch, ready for the next hot afternoon.

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How to: make 'Grassy Heads'

How to: make 'Grassy Heads'

Kids can make their own grass head person or maybe even a monster to scare friends and parents!

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How to: make heart-shaped topiary

How to: make heart-shaped topiary

Topiary is the garden art of trimming plants into shapes. You can make geometric shapes like balls or cones, and animal shapes like peacocks or chickens - even elephants! Isla decided on a heart for her topiary treasure.

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How to: make living art

How to: make living art

Eden, Isla and Skye create cool living sculptures from plants that live on air.

 

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How to: make moss art

How to: make moss art

Graffiti is so much more appealing when it’s green! Toronto is the home of moss graffiti but we think it’s worth bringing home. In fact when we posted about moss wall art our Facebook friends were thrilled. In case you missed that, here’s how to do it.

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How to: make pistou

How to: make pistou

The difference between a pistou and a pesto is pine nuts. The Italians use them, and the French (who took up the basil and garlic paste when Italian migrants moved into Provence in the 19th century) don’t. Typically a pistou is served with a soup made from summer vegetables and white beans.

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How to: Make Potting Mix

How to: Make Potting Mix

Plants in pots need the right nutrients, water, air and a quality potting mix to live happily ever after.

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How to: make rose petal jam

How to: make rose petal jam

Life’s good when we stop to smell the roses; and even better when we stop to eat them! Scones fresh from the oven, spread with fragrant rose petal jam and cream, and shared with friends in the garden: what could be finer! 

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How to: make rosella jam

How to: make rosella jam

Rosella is a fascinating member of the hibiscus family grown for its delicious calyx which makes irresistible jam. Linda Ross tells how it’s done.

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How to: make sweet chilli jam

How to: make sweet chilli jam

This recipe is easy to increase to meet your chilli surplus. Every year I team up with my father-in-law for our Chilli Jam Day - We turn six kilograms of chilli into 25 jars of delicious ruby-red sticky jam. 

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