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The ultimate guide for growing dill
Dill is often confused with fennel, but if you love to cook, you need to know the difference.
11 tasks for the early summer garden
Pop these seeds on your next shopping list — summer's the perfect time to get sowing.
DIY Project: An artistic climbing frame for plants
A practical climbing frame for plants can double as art for the garden.
The Toyota that stole her heart and joined her down the aisle
Kellie Hollingsworth wasn’t interested in cars, let alone restoring them. But then a shabby old Toyota stole her heart.
Why is gardening so good for the soul?
Gardeners know growing plants is great for your health, and now science is showing us some of the reasons why.
7 ways to fight New Zealand weeds organically
If you’re more interested in being kinder to your land, its soil and the health of the creatures living in it, you will need to take a longer-term view of dealing with weeds.
How to grow your own bath sponge
There aren’t many mouth-watering veggies that can also be a bath sponge and a dishcloth.
How to feed your poultry at every life stage
The happy, healthy chicken diets you need to feed your poultry for every age.
8 plants to grow for protein
These plants are an easy source of nutritious protein and can be grown in most parts of the country.
10 ways to encourage your kids to garden
Gardening is a fun activity for kids, and a great way to get them interested in eating vegetables.
This couple grew an eco-house and co-housing village
Richard Thompson and Laurel Stowell have grown their dream home, and a village to go with it.
A vision to clear pest vines spreads across Golden Bay
Banana-passion vines stand no chance against a Golden Bay man’s infectious vision.
Why you're having problems growing shiitake
These gourmet mushrooms can cost you around $60 per kilogram, or you can grab your chainsaw and grow them yourself.
Tips for planting a multi-coloured pumpkin patch
Whether you like yours white, blue, grey, pale green, orange, striped or knobbly, you can never have too many pumpkins. Or so says this pumpkin lover. A dedicated pumpkin patch will ensure you remain in pumpkin for the whole year.
Mary Biggs and the Country Cooking School
Mary Biggs started with Le Cordon Bleu, detoured into lemon cordial and is now back to basics with a country cooking school, sharing the bounty of her beloved farm.
A glorious six-star garden inspired by England
Nature gets away with quite a bit in this otherwise formal country garden.
A tram to call home in a rainbow flower garden
If this green-fingered Dunedin landscape architect had her way, the entire world would be a massive garden with flowers bursting into bloom all year round.
25 lessons from a long-time gardener
Gardens are great teachers, and Jenny Somervell’s has taught her a lot. She shares her key lessons, sometimes learned the hard way.
10 hands-on tasks for a blooming flower garden this summer
Kick off the flower garden by sowing annuals and planting tubers this October.
A quick-and-easy gardening guide for October
Add these seeds to your shopping list before heading to the garden centre.
5 important things to know about growing grass
Growing good quantities of quality grass doesn’t take a science degree or a large investment, but it does require care and common sense.
The plant to attract the good guys to your garden
Under the cover of the right plants lurk good guys who are weapons of mass destruction.
Transforming a steep, wet block with earthworks
When you have enormous amounts of water moving over your block, good earthworks keep everything calm.
Earthworks 101: Transforming a block with a digger
A beginner’s guide to hiring a digging contractor.
Confessions of a Horowhenua yuzu grower
You don't eat the fruit, they have little or no juice, and the tree may grab you and never let go. Meet the amazing yuzu.
4 tips for growing broad beans
There’s just one bean that can survive the worst of winter and can be planted through spring.
2 organic DIY ways to beat weeds this spring
If weeds are springing up all over your freshly tended beds, there are a couple of easy, spray-free ways to beat them back.
This herb is the best substitute for cucumber
If you need cucumber but don’t have any, this leafy herb is here to help.
Protecting Tasman Bay with fun, hands-on education
A Nelson-Tasman conservation group encourages its youngest generation to love and protect a 120-kilometre coastline.