growing fruit and vegetables from seeds and scraps

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Learn how you can make use of your fruit and vegetable scraps to help give birth to fresh produce.

organic expo sydney 2010

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Gardening Central filmed the action at Sydney's Organic Expo and we're in the process of editing and uploading videos + recipes and fact sheets. Keep checking back

winter gardening to prepare for spring

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With spring just around the corner, the short winter days are the best time to prepare the garden for summer - preparation now will give many months of colour and enjoyment

pest and disease watch for autumn and winter

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Pest and disease watch for Autumn/Winter. Green aphids love the tender tips of newly planted pansies, viola and other ornamental seedlings, and they will distort and

growing pears

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Pear trees belong to the rose family. Native to Europe they have been grown all over the continent, also in Britain and even Western Asia for more than 4000 years

bbq prawns with avocado salsa - pete evans recipe

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Celebrity chef Pete Evans (who you may know from My Kitchen Rules, Masterchef, Fresh or as co-owner of Hugo's), cooks up a light, refreshing meal whose simplicity does not to justice to its delightful taste.

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Strawberries, as beautiful as they are tasty, are one of the most common foods grown in eating-gardens around the world - good raw or cooked, and with a diverse range of culinary applications (jams, pies, deserts, cakes, cocktails to name a few) the vivid, aromatic strawberry is our plant of the month for September. Strawberries have been grown in gardens for a few centuries (originally bred in France). ...

 

The ultimate pleasure for a gardener is the creation of new plants from old. The art of filling your veggie patch with vegetable scraps that were destined for the bin or the compost can turn your vegetable scraps into a bumper crop.

Next time the tomatoes are overripe, keep the seed. Some will revert to
tiny cherry tomatoes but other heritage varieties such as Roma egg tomatoes
will germinate true to type. Which ever you have, they will producen tomatoes for summer salads. ...

 

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