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| Welcome to the Gardening Australia Newsletter: 03/12/2009 | Coming Up This Week | | After the Fires - 'The Patch' School Garden - Slater Control - The Vegie Guide - Flinders 'Investigator' Garden Read more ABC 1: Saturday 5 December 2009, 6:30pm and Sunday 6 December 2009, 1:00pm
| Watch a Story | | The Vegie Guide - Dec 2009 05/12/2009 Planting suggestions for the vegie garden in your climatic zone Watch video | Find a Fact Sheet | | Flinders' Investigator Garden Presenter: Sophie Thomson, 05/12/2009 Sophie Thomson shows us a unique garden in South Australia Read more | Browse the Video Archive | | There are three ways you can access Gardening Australia video: Streaming: Watch short clips of various segments online. Download: Manually download the complete episodes to your computer. Vodcast: Subscribe and have the complete episodes automatically downloaded to your computer. | Gardening Australia Forum | | Got a gardening question? Got an idea or tip? Why not go to our forum where you can talk to other keen gardeners, share ideas, help others or just share your passion for plants. And don't forget — members of the Gardening Australia team, including our presenters are Forum members too! So join the team to talk all things botanical. Join the conversation | Organic Gardener Magazine | | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010 ISSUE OUT NOW Colourful vegies: Peter Cundall is living proof that growing your own diversely coloured vegies leads to great nutrition and healthy vigour. In the new issue of Organic Gardener, discover why distinctive-coloured vegetable leaves, stems, roots, fruit and seeds not only look good but contain special health promoting pigments.
Luscious Lychees: Organic orchardist Andre Leu tells how to grow lychees in your backyard, and offers suggestions for suitable cultivars for your area.
Digging into Biochar: Biochar is a form of pure charcoal with a unique quality as a soil conditioner. Albert Bates investigates biochar's potential to repair soils, improve crop productivity and sequester carbon.
Chemical watch: Candles are seen as beautiful and natural, but many contain health-damaging impurities. Jo Immig cautions readers.
Garden Basics: Phil Dudman shares his tips on the most efficient ways to water vegies and trees.
Natural Solutions: Tim Marshall delves into the smelly wonders of garlic as an anti-pest spray in the garden.
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