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April 14, 2013 April 13th 2013.
Costa audits a typical family’s household bin to look at what waste we produce, visits an alternative waste treatment plant to find out how our mixed waste is being turned into a usable gardening resource. Jane visits a school on the Mornington Peninsula which has been purpose-built for sustainability while […]
April 11, 2013 October 10th 2009.
Josh Byrne meets a woman who is passionate about her local wetlands, and has developed a set of principles to help home gardeners minimise their impact on water catchments. Jane shows some alternate ways to eradicate and then use those painful pests – nettles, turning them from annoying to useful. […]
April 6, 2013 April 6th 2013.
Jane visits the home of Gardening Australia researcher Millie Ross to find out how to get the most from a garden that isn’t your own. Jerry shows how his humble guinea pigs take a lot of the effort out of keeping his lawn neat and tidy while John explores a […]
April 1, 2013 March 30th 2013.
Costa updates the verge’s progress and plants an avocado hedge for neighbour Deb and the street community. Jane explores Werribee Park in Melbourne’s west, revealing its rich horticultural past and how the garden is currently being used, and Tino goes through the grand plan for his recently purchased home, and […]
March 31, 2013 October 3rd 2009.
Stephen does some maintenance on his garden beds to prepare them for the summer while Jerry Colby-Williams prepares his productive garden for the long hot season ahead, collecting seed from spent crops and planting some vegetables tough enough to cope with the difficult conditions – huauzontle, quinoa and epasote. Colin […]
March 23, 2013 March 23rd 2013.
Josh meets a young couple passionate about their plot of paradise in the suburbs, a productive garden they learn from every day, Sophie demonstrates how to propagate succulents. and Costa is at Mt Annan Botanic Garden to meet D’harawal Elder Aunty Fran to find out what we can […]
March 21, 2013 Costa meets a retired teacher collecting food waste bound for landfill and redistributing it to local gardeners who put it to use in their gardens and then visits an inner city garden packed full of productive plants where food waste is used to fuel the compost, chickens and abundant garden growth. Sophie’s teaching […]
March 20, 2013 26th September 2009.
Tino Carnevale is busy preparing for spring in The Veggie Patch, and planting crops including asparagus from crowns and seed, and two varieties of beetroot. Stephen shows the secret ingredient to add to potted conifers to ensure successful propagation and Leonie meets a champion grower of tropical orchids in Darwin. […]
March 1, 2013 19th September 2009.
Jane Edmanson visits a garden in the Dandenong ranges to show some of her favourite cool season Salvias, and to demonstrate how to prune and propagate them. Josh Byrne drops in on some friends about 12 km outside of Broome to see their permaculture style farm, and check in on […]
February 18, 2013 12th September 2009.
John Patrick is in The Veggie Plot planting a range of spring greens, and sows seed of some unusual varieties including onion ‘Red Marble’, lettuce ‘Forellenschluss’ and perpetual spinach, Colin Campbell profiles a range of common garden implements and explains what job each is best suited to, and how to […]
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