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October 14, 2015 Costa hands out free plants to busy city workers, spreading the word about gardening and its many benefits to the physical and mental health of all who get up and grow! Tino plants out tasty unusual herbs that will thrive in a range of tricky spots – from the hot and dry to […]
October 5, 2015 Jane checks out the latest flower project undertaken by the City of Melbourne – a mass-planted display of ninety-thousand daffodils in Fitzroy Gardens, Costa shows how to maintain a thriving pond and aquaponics system, cleaning out and replanting both with productive aquatic edibles, and Tino shows how to get the most out of […]
September 28, 2015 Costa finally meets the gardener behind a plot he has admired for years – a vibrant and creative verge garden in the heart of Bondi Junction, Tino is planting a range of easily grown edible tubers; from the humble potato to an exotic sunflower and a South American yam suited to the even […]
September 20, 2015 Jane visits a nursery specialising in espalier and shows how training plants into patterns is underpinned by simple principals that anyone can apply at home, Sophie profiles the Mexican fruit – the tomatillo, and Angus visits a nursery to show how to avoid some of the common pitfalls gardeners make when buying plants. […]
September 14, 2015 Sophie is in Renmark in the South Australian Riverland, visiting the country’s foremost citrus grower, Ian Tolley, to find out how to select, plant, prune and grow thriving backyard citrus. Josh meets Alex George, a renowned expert on the flora of WA, to explore his garden of stunning and unique native plants that […]
September 6, 2015 Tino explains the basics of raising your own seedlings at home, showing us how to sow, grow and how to know when the time is right to plant out, Jerry enlists the help of entomologist, Gurion Ang, to show how to manage one of the most dreaded pests on the subtropical gardeners’ hit […]
August 30, 2015 John explains how to use the form, colour and texture of plants to create pleasing and eye-catching combinations in the garden, Jerry shows how to fight aphids using turnips, and Tino’s busy maintaining his raspberry canes and sowing a late crop of broad beans and spinach. Also Costa explores an expansive and productive […]
August 24, 2015 Costa drops in on a gardener who shares a number of great ideas for productive gardening, including watering, fertilising and putting chickens to work, Josh shows how to plant passionfruit to get them off to a flying start, and Jerry visits Roma Street Parklands to help out with relocating their collection of bromeliads, […]
August 17, 2015 Jane shows how to hard prune and revive tired camellias, Josh visits a gardener with a stunning collection of weird and wonderful succulents and cycads from Africa and John profiles a great tree for small backyards – the hybrid strawberry tree. Also Costa shows how to give tired hand tools a new lease […]
August 13, 2015 Angus visits a native garden in Sydney’s west that’s growing a diverse range of species and lists his top five plants for bush tucker, Josh has a great climbing plant solution for a tricky spot, and Costa shows how to build a three-tiered planter that’s highly productive and colourful while Jane shows how […]
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