Fruit & Veges

Stake - this bean variety makes it through winter with ease - but often they get forgotten when it's cold, because nobody heads into the vegetable patch! Now is the time to straighten the plants, staking them up or gathering them together, so that the both the sun and the...

More and more of us are getting into growing our own food, but for first timers it's a daunting task, especially getting started. Here's Digger Dan's list of 10 easy steps to be 'eating out of the garden' before Christmas: Get the site right: Mark out where in your garden...

What does it mean to be organic? It means growing without chemical fertilizers and sprays in growing media and soils that have no chemical additives. What is certified organic - Certifying authorities such as BioGro NZ and Asure Quality audit organics producers to ensure that they manufacture products without any...

These days, it's a rare kid that chooses the fruit bowl over the pantry. Nostalgic tales from the 'olden days' of apples nicked from a neighbour's tree, for them, seem hard to fathom. But today as always, stolen or not, the mouthwatering crunch of a freshly picked apple just can't...

Autumn is a great time to plant a new garden, but for those of us averse to digging, the hardest part can be getting started. Spadework is at its most off-putting where heavy soil is hard to dig, let alone being conducive to healthy plant growth. Poor soils, both heavy...