Preserving Produce, Perfect Pots, Legumes + More!!!!!!!

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Welcome to the Gardening Australia Newsletter: 1/05/2015 Coming Up This Week The Patch: Legumes - Sensational Sedums - Compost vs Mulch - Packing Your Pickles - Playing with Plants - Natural Selection - Perfect Pots - Banksias and Babes Read more ABC TV: Saturday 2 May 2015, 6:30pm and Sunday 3 May 2015, 1:00pm Watch a Story Web Exclusive - Fabulous Fermenting 02/05/2015 Costa learns how to preserve produce by fermenting Watch video Find a Fact Sheet The Patch - Legumes Presenter: Tino Carnevale, 02/05/2015 Tino is planting one of the most useful groups of plants to winter vegetable gardeners - legumes 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. Catch Up on iView GARDENING AUSTRALIA ON IVIEW Never miss a gardening moment! Gardening Australia on iView Weekly Gardening Action Plan Tropical Zone This time of year tropical orchids will appreciate it if you check them over for snails, slugs and scale: Orchid Collector Fact Sheet Subtropical Zone Jerry has a few suggestions for autumn in a subtropical vegie garden: Sub-tropical Winter Vegies Fact Sheet Temperate Zone In this week's show, Angus visits the former home of author and illustrator May Gibb's - famous for turning Australian plants into characters including the 'Wattle Babies': Coming Up This Week. Why not introduce some non-invasive wattles to your temperate gardens for some winter colour, like the 'Gold Dust' wattle Acacia acinacea "Ruby Tips" or the striking Acacia leprosa 'Scarlet Blaze' Arid Zone A water feature in a dry zone can be a great comfort - and there are many native plants that can be used, like the Common Nardoo, Marsilea drummondi: Water Plants Fact Sheet Cool Zone It's a great time to give your apple trees a bit of love as fruiting winds down: Dwarf Apples And if you want some ideas of what to plant in the vegie patch, don't forget to visit The Vegie Guide or Download the App Gardening Australia - gardening for you, gardening for the planet Join us on Facebook Follow @gardeningaus Follow gardeningaus © 2012 ABC | Privacy Policy | Homepage | Manage newsletter subscription

Native bonsai, keeping compost smelling sweet, planting bulbs + More

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Welcome to the Gardening Australia Newsletter: 17/04/2015 Coming Up This Week Free Food - Stop the Stink - Tropical Breeze - Native Bonsai - Pruning Roo Paws - Frangipani - Planting Bulbs Read more ABC TV: Saturday 18 April 2015, 6:30pm and Sunday 19 April 2015, 1:00pm Watch a Story Native Bonsai 18/04/2015 Preview a Story from the Upcoming Show Watch video Find a Fact Sheet Stop the Stink Presenter: Josh Byrne, 18/04/2015 Josh shows how to keep your compost healthy and sweet 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. Catch Up on iView GARDENING AUSTRALIA ON IVIEW Never miss a gardening moment! Gardening Australia on iView Weekly Gardening Action Plan This is the time of year when gardeners around the country are looking around and taking stock - planning ahead for new plantings. Here are some handy tips for how to go about it: Subtropical Zone Create a garden design for any climate with three basic steps: Good Garden Design Fact Sheet Temperate Zone Perfect soil preparation for bare-rooted roses: Starting a Rose Garden Fact Sheet Arid Zone Create a raised bed for planting natives that need perfect drainage: Building a Raised Bed Fact Sheet Tropical Zone Create a garden path that will handle both the wet and dry seasons: Gravel Paths Fact Sheet Cool Zone Create the perfect soil for planting bulbs. Have a look at the Soil Preparation Fact Sheet and see Jane's story tomorrow! And if you want some ideas of what to plant in the vegie patch, don't forget to visit The Vegie Guide or Download the App Gardening Australia - gardening for you, gardening for the planet Join us on Facebook Follow @gardeningaus Follow gardeningaus © 2012 ABC | Privacy Policy | Homepage | Manage newsletter subscription

Garlic, garlic, garlic - Hippeastrums - Gardening questions answered + More!

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Welcome to the Gardening Australia Newsletter: 10/04/2015 Coming Up This Week Raising the Roof - Hooked on Hippeastrums - FAQ's - Guess My Garlic - Being Neighbourly - Making More Hippies Read more ABC TV: Saturday 11 April 2015, 6:30pm and Sunday 12 April 2015, 1:00pm Watch a Story Guess My Garlic 11/04/2015 Preview a Story from the Upcoming Show Watch video Find a Fact Sheet Hooked on Hippeastrums Presenter: Jerry Coleby-Williams, 11/04/2015 Jerry checks out a hippeastrum farm to find out how new and exciting varieties of these easy-to-grow flowers are bred and propagated 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. Catch Up on iView GARDENING AUSTRALIA ON IVIEW Never miss a gardening moment! Gardening Australia on iView Weekly Gardening Action Plan Many of our viewers have emailed or posted questions about fertilising their fruit trees this time of year - we hope this helps! Tropical Zone As dry season sets in, use a liquid fertiliser once a month when you water: Fertiliser Teas Fact Sheet Subtropical Zone In the subtropics you can push the climatic boundaries, growing everything from low-chill apples to the climbing cactus dragon fruit. They do have quite different fertiliser needs but all appreciate a 'tonic' at this time of the year: Soil Tonics Fact Sheet Temperate Zone Once your apple, quince & pear harvest is finished, apply some pelletised, organic slow-release fertiliser under the mulch. And don't forget to include calcium!: Dwarf Apples Article Arid Zone Be consistent with citrus. Water regularly as fruit develop and ensure you keep the nutrients up as well!: Backyard Fruit Fact Sheet Cool Zone A dose of organic slow-release fertiliser will set feed the soil around stone fruit in the winter. For an added boost, top with well-rotted compost or manure: Growing Stone Fruit Article And if you want some ideas of what to plant in the vegie patch, don't forget to visit The Vegie Guide or Download the App Gardening Australia Magazine MAY ISSUE AVAILABLE APRIL 13 PLANT OF THE MONTH Hailing from South Africa, proteas make fantastic feature shrubs and, with their long stems, are superb cut flowers, too. Angus Stewart runs through the three genera - Protea, Leucospermum and Leucadendron - and shares his growing tips. PERIOD ROMANCE Jennifer Stackhouse visits Old Wesleydale in Mole Creek, Tasmania, where a relatively young garden weaves seamlessly around 19th-century stone structures. Neatly trimmed hedges and elephant topiary sit alongside flower beds, fruit trees and striking sculpture pieces. CRUNCH TIME Ditch bland, shop-bought carrots and grow your own for superior sweetness and texture. Carrots are suitable for all climates, and a good crop for growing in pots and containers. And it isn't just kids who love pulling up a fresh carrot! TREE TROUBLE As we head into winter, it's a good time to pay attention to your trees. What are the warning signs of pest and disease activity? We show you how to do some basic health checks yourself - and how to tell it's time to call in the tree doctor. THE ROSE SPECIAL - Best friends What are the best companion plants for roses? Deryn Thorpe shows how to mix roses with flowering perennials, bulbs and annuals for a stylish 'cottage garden' look. - This won't hurt a bit Trisha Dixon writes with passion about the joys of rose varieties that come with very few thorns, but aren't short on the qualities we covet in a rose - beauty, colour and fragrance. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE How to protect your vegie crops from frost and other climate extremes Brisbane's Epicurious Garden shows locals how to grow their own food the incredible multipurpose nature of a bird's beak sweet, warming apple recipes a tour through the far south portion of New South Wales. Gardening Australia - gardening for you, gardening for the planet Join us on Facebook Follow @gardeningaus Follow gardeningaus © 2012 ABC | Privacy Policy | Homepage | Manage newsletter subscription

Make your own compost bay, native plant myths exposed, seed bombs + more!

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Welcome to the Gardening Australia Newsletter: 3/04/2015 Coming Up This Week Building Compost Bays - Pruning for Fruit - Healing With Horticulture - The Native Truth - Making Hot Compost - Back From the Brink - Seed Bombs - Filling the Senses Read more ABC TV: Saturday 4 April 2015, 6:30pm and Sunday 5 April 2015, 1:00pm Watch a Story The Native Truth 04/04/2015 Preview a Story from the Upcoming Show Watch video Find a Fact Sheet Building Compost Bays Presenter: Costa Georgiadis, 04/04/2015 Costa helps the Gordon family build compost bays out of recycled materials, and shows how to successfully produce hot compost 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. Catch Up on iView GARDENING AUSTRALIA ON IVIEW Never miss a gardening moment! Gardening Australia on iView Weekly Gardening Action Plan Cool Zone As deciduous trees begin to 'turn', it's a great time to look for new trees at your local nursery. This way, you can see exactly what colours each species will produce. Here's how it happens: The Colour of Autumn Fact Sheet Temperate Zone Autumn crocus (Sternbergia lutea), Blood Lilies (Haemanthus coccineus) and spicy saffron (Crocus sativus) are blooming now, but there's still time to plant bulbs for spring colour: Bright Bulbs Article Tropical Zone In the Top End, the Darwin Woolybutt (Eucalyptus miniata) buds are swelling, about to burst into their blazing colour. Their fabulous flowers indicate the start of the dry season: Dry Season Native Plants Fact Sheet Arid Zone Celebrate the chillies, tomatoes and pot marigolds that continue to create hot, delicious colour in the vegie garden: Organic Gardener Blog Subtropical Zone Many native trees are producing their seed, why not have a go at growing your own?: Growing Trees From Seed Fact Sheet And if you want some ideas of what to plant in the vegie patch, don't forget to visit The Vegie Guide or Download the App Organic Gardener Magazine MAY / JUNE ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW Celebrate all things Australian in the garden, from the humble shed, to bush tucker, home-grown fruit, flower and veg varieties, and good old-fashioned Aussie ingenuity.. TRUE BLUE PUMPKINS Justin Russell reckons there are few vegies as true blue as the pumpkin and names his top five Aussie varieties, plus tips on how to grow and store them. KNOW YOUR ONIONS Crying out for advice on how to grow a successful onion crop? Peter Cundall's expert tips are sure to bring tears of joy! WILD FOOD Chef Clayton Donovan is using the wild and robust flavours of the Australian bush to help shape a unique cuisine we can call our own, writes Kylie McGregor. Plus his top bush foods with cooking and growing tips. DIGGING FOR VICTORY Stuart Read revisits our gardening past and the wartime campaign for people to 'dig for victory' by growing their own vegies, boosting a nationwide backyard food movement. PATCHES OF PEACE Gardening is proving a therapeutic tonic, both physically and mentally, for returned war veterans around Australia, writes Simon Webster. COOL TIMES Winter is on the way so it's time to relish in reduced pest and disease problems and prepare for cooler conditions. TOP 10 AUSSIE ICONS Australia is certainly no slouch in the ingenuity department. Jacqueline Forster picks her top 10 homegrown inventions in agriculture and sustainability. SHEDS AHEAD Renowned Australian photographer Simon Griffiths celebrates sheds of all shapes and sizes in his latest book, Shed. Gardening Australia - gardening for you, gardening for the planet Join us on Facebook Follow @gardeningaus Follow gardeningaus © 2012 ABC | Privacy Policy | Homepage | Manage newsletter subscription