Organic Gardener Magazine is a guide to organic gardening, providing informative and inspirational stories on everything you need to know to grow your own fruit and vegetables- without the use of harmful chemicals. Each issue includes practical tips and advice from leading organic gardening experts.

ABC Organic Gardener Magazine

MAGNIFICENT FOOD

plan success for gardening in 2021

mail

GET IN TOUCH

news

GARDENING ON YOUR LOCAL ABC RADIO

the best of your ABC

DISCOVER THE BEST OF THE ABC

SEEDS FOR SPRING • KAREN SUTHERLAND FINDS SOME VEGIES AND HERBS GOOD TO GROW FROM SEED THIS TIME OF YEAR.

Captivating CAPSICUMS • THESE BEAUTIES COME IN A VIBRANT ARRAY OF SHAPES, COLOURS AND FLAVOURS, AND WITH CAREFUL NURTURING CAN BE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF YOUR SUMMER VEGIE PATCH, WRITES HELEN MCKERRAL.

POLLINATION

OVERWINTERING

TOP TIP

HEIRLOOM VARIETIES

Putting it all on the LIME • JUSTIN RUSSELL EXPLORES THE TANGY WORLD OF LIMES AND HOW TO GROW THEM, FROM TAHITIAN TO NATIVE FINGER LIMES.

NATIVE LIMES

HARVESTING AND USES

Fantastic FENNEL • WONDERFULLY VERSATILE, FENNEL CAN SOOTHE YOUR STOMACH, FRESHEN YOUR BREATH, AND ADD A SWEET ANISE FLAVOUR TO MEALS. BUT THERE’S MUCH MORE TO THIS LIQUORICE-SCENTED PLANT, WRITES PENNY WOODWARD.

Fennel wonders

SUGGESTED SUPPLIERS

The way to MAGNIFICENT FOOD • INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE, USE OF HYBRIDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE ARE ALL EATING AWAY AT THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF OUR FOOD, JUSTIN RUSSELL TELLS HOW WE CAN TURN THIS AROUND.

HOW TO IMPROVE NUTRIENT LEVELS IN SOIL

Heirlooms versus hybrids

CHEMICAL WATCH

How to grow CHEMICAL-FREE STRAWBERRIES

A WEEDY BUSINESS • WITH WARMER WEATHER ENCOURAGING GROWTH IN OUR GARDENS, JUSTIN RUSSELL EXPLAINS THE KEY STRATEGIES FOR DEALING WITH WEEDS.

All about WEEDS

FLIES the good, the bad • DENIS CRAWFORD INVESTIGATES THE WORLD OF FLIES THE ONES THAT WILL HELP IN THE GARDEN AND THE ONES THAT WILL DRIVE YOU CRAZY.

FLY FACTS

REPELLENTS

SCIENCE HERO

Get cracking • THE JOBS ARE PILING UP AND PRODUCTIVITY BOOMING AS THE HEAT OF SUMMER APPROACHES.

SEED SAVING

HOW TO MANAGE POSSUMS

welcome to ORGANIC LIVING

From all corners • A NEW BOOK FROM ‘FOOD COMMUNITY’ CORNERSMITH COMBINES DELICIOUS RECIPES WITH A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO REDUCING FOOD WASTE AND RUNNING A MORE SUSTAINABLE HOME KITCHEN.

WINE PICKS

HARVEST NOTES

How to store rhubarb

Beautiful BAKING • SOPHIE HANSEN INTRODUCES SOME NUTRITIOUS AND FLAVOURSOME FLOURS WITH A DIFFERENCE, SUCH AS SPELT AND KHORASAN, AND HOW TO GET THE BEST OUT OF THEM. ALSO, A RECIPE FOR BUCKWHEAT BISCOTTI.

in conversation with MAX ALLEN • ORGANIC GARDENER’S WINE REVIEWER MAX ALLEN IS A SELF-DESCRIBED ‘FLAVOUR GEEK’. HE HAS BEEN WRITING ABOUT ORGANIC AND BIODYNAMIC FOOD AND DRINKS FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS — HERE HE TALKS WITH LEANNE CROKER ABOUT WHY.

A RAW TREAT • KELLY LEES EXPLORES THE WONDERS OF HONEY, ISSUES WITH ITS PROCESSING, AND THE BENEFITS OF GOING ‘RAW’.

Where to get it raw

The perfect egg • THERE’S NOTHING BETTER THAN FRESH ORGANIC EGGS FROM YOUR OWN CHOOKS BUT THINGS CAN GO WRONG IN LAYING LAND, WRITES JESSAMY MILLER. HERE ARE SOME PROBLEMS AND HOW TO FIX THEM.

EGG ODDITIES

reviews

WIN! 1 of 8 SEASOL HAMPERS • SIMPLE SOLUTIONS THAT WILL GIVE YOUR GARDEN A BOOST.

HOW TO ENTER

THE HAMPER INCLUDES

‘ICE CREAM’ ANYONE? • AS HIS ICE CREAM BEAN BEGINS TO BLOT OUT THE MILKY WAY, SIMON WEBSTER MARVELS AT HOW ONE SEED CAN GO SO BALLISTIC.