Garden guides

Practical help for every season.

Start with local timing, prepare your space and build a garden routine you can keep.

Start a vegetable patch

Choose a sunny space, improve the soil and begin with a small group of crops suited to the season.

Match pot size to the plant, use quality mix and check moisture more often during warm or windy weather.

Explore native vegetables and edible plants in the photo gallery below.

Use your postcode as a broad climate guide, then account for frost, shade, heat and the conditions in your own garden.

Native Australian foods

Explore these edible native plants, then check growing conditions and identification before planting or harvesting.

A leafy coastal native suited to many home gardens.

An Australian native with an edible tuber.

A hardy shrub grown for its savoury leaves.

A coastal succulent with edible leaves and fruit.

A native coastal herb with celery-like leaves.

A grassy native plant with edible parts.