Nov 18, 2022 | Articles, Garden
Top tips for thrifty gardeners Food gardening can be expensive at times, especially if you’re always heading to the shops to buy seedlings or bagged compost. But there are lots of ways to food garden that don’t cost the earth. We’ve put together...
Nov 17, 2022 | Articles, Garden
Unstable weather is bad news for most vegetables. As we head into yet another unusually wet and variable summer, we have good reasons to be wondering if we will be able to harvest some of our favourites, with less than perfect conditions. Lettuces are popular for...
Sep 23, 2022 | Articles, Garden
Dig into the art of growing tomatoes with our essential tips. Download our free brochure and when you get the taste for more buy the...
Aug 1, 2022 | Articles, Garden, Uncategorized
Saltbush groundcovers – 2 handy plants for habitat and bushfood gardens Creeping and Nodding Saltbushes are two plants indigenous to Victoria that pop up around farms and bushland, self seeded by birds and small animals that eat the fruit. Both are valuable plants in...
Apr 5, 2022 | Articles, Garden, Uncategorized
Truly the best native fruiting plants of arid areas of Victoria, SA and NSW, the Quandong, or Native Peach, Santalum acuminatum, is rarely seen today. A small, slightly weeping tree, with narrow grey-green leaves, they are parasitic plants, so are not simple plants to...
Feb 8, 2022 | Articles, Garden
Surely that’s not a question you think? Mulching is such an accepted practice in modern gardening, that querying this is surely sacrilegious! Gardening habits, like others in our lives, develop over time as society does. Gardening articles and texts are often...
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