How to Grow Cucurbits
Cucurbits include cucumber, pumpkin, zucchini, squash, watermelon and rockmelon. These all share traits and enjoy similar growing conditions. All are easy to grow and highly productive in the home garden. […]
How to Prune Deciduous Fruiting Trees
Winter is a great time to prune most deciduous fruit trees, berries, fruiting bushes and vines. Always choose a sunny day, as this reduces the risk of diseases being spread […]
How to Grow Tomatoes
Tomatoes are a favourite to grow and every region seems to have a local show day, race day or community event that is the green light to plant out your […]
How to Prune Roses
July is a great month for planting new roses but is also the time to give your existing roses some attention for a fabulous display of colour and fragrance over […]
How to Grow Citrus
Without doubt, citrus trees are the most popular fruit grown in home gardens. In gardens everywhere, citrus trees are delighting gardeners with fresh, tasty and vitamin-packed fruity goodness. With today’s […]
How to Grow Fruit Trees
Once growing fruit trees at home was very common. Nowadays with gardens being smaller, the availability of wonderful new generation fruit trees has seen a resurgence in growing healthy home-grown […]
How to Grow Callistemons
Callistemons or Bottlebrushes are one of the hardiest Australian native plants. The bright bottlebrush shaped flowers a very impressive part of the spring landscape and are a delight for native […]
How to Grow Roses
Originating from China, the earliest modern rose was the tea rose. With centuries of breeding, modern roses are long flowering with it possible to achieve continuous flowering from spring to […]
How to Grow Hellebores
Hellebores are known as ‘Winter Roses’ although they are not related or even similar in growth habits to roses. Hellebores love the cooler weather and thrive in shaded locations. They […]
How to Grow Finger Limes
The Finger Lime (Citrus australasica) is an Australian native citrus that produces fruit with caviar-like pulp in bright colours. Flowers are produced in summer and autumn followed by the elongated […]