Tomoto Taste test sheet

To list or not to list?

Calling all gardeners to visit our Heronswood trial gardens and add your voice. Which heirloom variety would you choose?

Garden with Arch

Maximise your vegetable garden

Create a backyard ecosystem that starts with a healthy, life-giving soil to expand your harvest and tantalise your taste buds.

Cloudehill Gardens 2022

How to explore a garden

Creative design of steps, paths and terraces helps Cloudehill visitors comfortably navigate a hillside garden.

JW Grandchildren

Gardening through the ages

Intergenerational garden education passes down plant knowledge, gardening skills and cultural practices to younger generations.

Dirty Hands

Soil is not a dirty word

Understanding the link between fertilisers, microbial activity and the nutrient content of the food we grow.

Dinocampus

Our much-loved garden visitors

Ladybird beetles – the good, the bad and the beautiful!

Alex Miller in Garden

Gardening next door

Don’t have space to garden? Why not explore the opportunities of growing food in a neighbour’s backyard.

Lotus Effect

Cultivating nature’s wisdom

Practising biomimicry in the garden and learning from nature’s processes to inspire solutions for design, engineering and architecture.

Trentham Gemmola

Rhythm, repetition and natural cycles

Naturalistic planting in an Australian context. Tim Pilgrim’s new book shares his vision for a style of gardening that is both wild and controlled.

Natasha Moragan Weaving

Less is more, Interview with Natasha Morgan

Downsizing to a smaller property helped Natasha Morgan upsize the time available for growing food, flowers and family.

MIFGS22

The next chapter for The Diggers Club

Fiona talks about the Digger journey approaching the 50th birthday and beyond.

Hand cupping soil

Restoring our soils

Industrial farming erodes topsoil at alarming rates, relying on chemicals that damage ecosystems and food quality, making the Western diet highly unsustainable. In contrast, regenerative gardening restores soil health, recycles waste, and offers a sustainable, chemical-free solution to growing food.

Garnett Tommy Penny Mono

Vale Penelope Garnett

Clive Blazey writes about Penny Garnett, recently passed away. Penny co-established Garden of St Erth.