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If you want extra beds for summer guests, a simple sleepout may be the ideal solution.

A 2 billion year old organism is the hot new food trend, and a gourmet business opportunity.

Succulents are a beautiful business plan if you enjoy some simple DIY and a little creativity.

These common weeds compete for more desirable species such as ryegrass and clover.

There's nothing quite like biting into a homegrown tomato.

Dill is often confused with fennel, but if you love to cook, you need to know the difference.

Pop these seeds on your next shopping list — summer's the perfect time to get sowing.

A practical climbing frame for plants can double as art for the garden.

Kellie Hollingsworth wasn’t interested in cars, let alone restoring them. But then a shabby old Toyota stole her heart.

Gardeners know growing plants is great for your health, and now science is showing us some of the reasons why.

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.

There aren’t many mouth-watering veggies that can also be a bath sponge and a dishcloth.

The happy, healthy chicken diets you need to feed your poultry for every age.

These plants are an easy source of nutritious protein and can be grown in most parts of the country.

Gardening is a fun activity for kids, and a great way to get them interested in eating vegetables.

Richard Thompson and Laurel Stowell have grown their dream home, and a village to go with it.

Now is the time to sow to reap the benefits this summer.

Banana-passion vines stand no chance against a Golden Bay man’s infectious vision.

These gourmet mushrooms can cost you around $60 per kilogram, or you can grab your chainsaw and grow them yourself.

Sow your courgette seeds now for a fruitful summer harvest.

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 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.

Nature gets away with quite a bit in this otherwise formal country 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.

Gardens are great teachers, and Jenny Somervell’s has taught her a lot. She shares her key lessons, sometimes learned the hard way.

What to do before you fire up the tractor for spring.

Kick off the flower garden by sowing annuals and planting tubers this October.

Add these seeds to your shopping list before heading to the garden centre.

Planting asparagus crowns all comes down to technique.

Growing good quantities of quality grass doesn’t take a science degree or a large investment, but it does require care and common sense.

Under the cover of the right plants lurk good guys who are weapons of mass destruction.

When you have enormous amounts of water moving over your block, good earthworks keep everything calm.

A beginner’s guide to hiring a digging contractor.

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.