ABC Organic Gardener

23/01/2025

Enjoy the beautiful images and hope-filled story from about turning degraded land into a healthy and profitable enterprise. 🌳

In the middle of Tasmania sits a 5,000-hectare property once used for sheep grazing. But when the sheep farmers left, an unlikely buyer moved in.

22/01/2025

Tomatoes are definitely one of the many wonders of an organic garden, especially when you can choose from so many different varieties! 🍅This handful of goodness is from Justin O'Brien's garden and the variety is called 'Dragons Eye'. What a beauty! Did they taste as good as they look, Justin? 😋

👉 For more tomato growing info head to our website: www.organicgardener.com.au/plants/tomatoes/

💚 Thank you for sharing, Justin, who you will find at urbanfarmer2570

21/01/2025

Looking for a plant that will add colour to a sunny spot in your garden or on your balcony? Our Tuesday tip this week is from Karen Sutherland and is about just such a plant: echinacea.

🌱Echinacea spp.🌱

Not to be confused with the other coneflowers, echinacea blooms look similar to rudbeckias but are a different genus. They are herbaceous perennials that are tolerant of a wide variety of soil types as long as they are well drained and kept moist. Long flowering, they make worthy inclusions in a flower border or cottage garden and make lovely cut flowers. Traditional choices are purple flowering Echinacea purpurea and the darker purple cultivar ‘Magnus Superior’, or white flowering ‘White Swan’. For more vibrant colours, look for the recently released Artisan collection of cultivars in orange, yellow and soft reds, or the bright pink flowers of ‘PowWow Wild Berry’. E. pallida features long, thin, pale-pink petals hanging from the central cone, and although appearing delicate, is more drought hardy than E. purpurea.

👉 For more planting ideas head to our website: www.organicgardener.com.au/

📷 Thank you for the image and the tip, Karen Sutherland at Edible Eden Design 💚

16/01/2025

A recent report from The Australia Institute found that 40% of Australians are growing their own produce, for a host of reasons. Read this story from ABC Broken Hill following two families and the rewards they get from their patches - what's your patch providing? 🌱

Amid the chaos of motherhood and everyday life, two mums find solace and healing in their gardens.

15/01/2025

Beautiful summer blooms from the garden of .hope.blooms.flower.farm - such a joyful mix! Perfect for our first Wednesday wonder post of the year 💚

What's blooming in your garden?

🌼 Thank you for sharing, Brenda! 💚

14/01/2025

We've come back to our gardens with added energy and inspiration! Whether your patch is indoors, outdoors, or a mix, our Tuesday tips are here to provide ideas and solutions for organic gardening success. Today we start with native indoor plants. 🪴

Happy gardening everyone! 🌱

There’s a stack of Australian native plants from rainforest areas that are naturally suited to low light, so are perfect as indoor plants.

13/01/2025

Anyone still on holidays out there? Maybe looking for something to do with the kids, who are getting a bit twitchy? Follow these tips from our friends and head out into nature for a eucalyptus hunting adventure! 😎

09/01/2025

Trying to keep on top of the pesky pests in your own backyard? These volunteers are taking the control of bad bugs into their own hands, maintaining the health of the rare and delicate plant collection at the Australian National Botanic Gardens without the use of chemicals. 😉

For about two hours every week, the Squishy Vols, as they're known, meet for some meditative manual labour to squish bugs and scrape scale from plants in the glasshouses at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.

07/01/2025

Australia is fortunate to have several species of native citrus which, although known to Indigenous Australians and to the first white settlers and explorers, have only been commercially exploited in the last few decades. Now you can grow them in your backyard. 🌱

Plant native limes, like finger and desert limes, with the expert advice here. You'll get tasty fruit to add to your harvest as a result.

06/01/2025

The OG team are back! 💚 And we want to wish you all a year filled with magic – in your gardens and anywhere else you think it can be found on our beautiful planet. 🌏

#2025

03/01/2025

Penny Woodward looks at the many practical uses of soothing aloe vera and how to grow and harvest this succulent.

Penny Woodward looks at the many practical uses of soothing aloe vera and how to grow and harvest this succulent.

02/01/2025

Any new year's resolutions out there to get out into the garden more and improve your harvest? 😎 Pretty standard goal for us gardeners as we all want to grow more and produce fresh fruit and veg to share wtih family and friends. One way to help achieve that goal is to get some gardening guidance from the experts, and both and Organic Gardener have that kind of advice in buckets! Subscribe today and get gardening! 💚

31/12/2024

We have a whole planting year ahead of us! And our easy-to-use planting guide is just the the tool you need to help plan what will grow best in your garden throughout the year. You can create your very own planting calendar for your patch in three steps!

Create a planting guide for your patch in three steps! Select a climate zone; pick your plants and; click a button for you garden planner!

30/12/2024

The ingredients for sparkling summer drinks are simple and easy to find as long as you have a bunch of herbs. Penny Woodward has a few suggestions to add fresh flavour, straight from your garden. 😋

Make your own cooling summer drinks suggests Penny Woodward, such as herb teas and sparkling herb teas for any occassion.

29/12/2024

It’s getting hot out there so you might want to try an alternative to your usual leafy greens: microgreens. They may not feed the family but these greens can be harvested in as little as three to five days so you can have a constant supply if managed well. 🌱

It's very easy, and rewarding, to grow your own nutrient-rich microgreens and sprouts, and it won't take much time until you see the results.

27/12/2024

Whether you are heading out of town or staying home to spend time in your garden, here's some tips from our experts to prepare for the rest of summer and beat the heat. 😎

Whether you are heading out of town or staying home to spend time in your garden, here's some tips to prepare for the rest of summer

26/12/2024

No need to keep your gift giving to one day of the year, especially when you have a garden filled with treasures! 🎁 Us gardeners have heaps to give!

Gifts from your own garden offer a personal touch that recipients will love, from carefully saved seeds to lovingly potted succulents.

23/12/2024

Best wishes for the holidays everyone! We will be posting summer growing tips for those heading out into the garden. We have turned off the commenting, though, so we can have a good break. Enjoy everyone!