Nutrition on a shoestring

The very best food for health and well-being is the sort that grows in a garden. Food picked fresh from the garden contains the most nutrients and it's super convenient, saving time with fewer trips to the supermarket.
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9 reasons to plant roses

Who can resist a beautiful rose? Their sheer beauty is reason enough to plant more of them. But roses are functional too with something for every purpose. It's time to plant them now.
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Life inside - success with houseplants

Connecting with nature doesn't just happen outside. More and more of us are discovering and rediscovering the simple joy of co-habiting with plants.
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Legionnaires' Disease

Gardening is an enjoyable and healthy pastime. However each year a few gardeners contract legionnaires' disease. There are simple steps you can take to lessen the risk ...
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Kids Go Gardening - grow your own potatoes

When you take a potato and plant it in the ground, it grows a whole lot more potatoes!
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On home ground

When you want to grow your own food but don't have a large garden, it comes down to getting the most out of the space you have.
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Treading lightly

Sue Linn visits a Katikati gardener with a passion for permaculture.
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Greenlife Matters

We know plants and green spaces are good for us. But did you know plants can provide health & wellbeing, economic, social and sustainable environmental solutions?
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Winter inspiration

Dressed to impress - how to grow lilies

Lovely lilies are easier to grow than their extraordinary good looks might suggest.
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Grow peas

Peas are favourite winter grown crops and especially fun for kids who are usually delighted to discover that peas actually come from little green packages call pods, not just frozen in plastic bags.
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Grow daphne

A single sprig of daphne can fill a room with perfume. Such powerful fragrance on a small evergreen shrub is especially precious in mid winter!
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The essential lemon tree

The trusty lemon fulfills all manner of culinary requirements; from marinades to dressings, to homemade lemonade for summer and hot soothing drinks for winter. And only lemon rivals chocolate in the most heavenly of heavenly desserts.
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Inspiration for Kids

A quarterly mini magazine for children containing colour projects and puzzles to encourage the next generation of gardeners. FREE bonus Yates Seed with each issue

Nature's way to a better world

Coming up with a workable composting system that fits your lifestyle will greatly reduce food waste and build better soil.
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Upward trends - create a vertical garden

When ground space gets scare, gardens go vertical!
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Colourful Pacific™ Coprosmas

Pacific™ Coprosmas are easy care, colourful, year-round showstoppers and make perfect edging/hedging plants.
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The nature garden

Plant trees and shrubs that provide food and lodgings for birds so you can enjoy them in your garden.
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