Zucchini is the most productive vegetable in the summer garden — here is how to grow it well and manage the inevitable glut.
Make extraordinary fermented garlic honey — the simplest fermented preparation and one of the most powerfully therapeutic foods from your garden.
Leeks need a long season but they're worth it. Learn transplanting into deep dibbed holes, blanching stems by hilling, and using leeks in the ground as natural storage.
Vinegar preserving — pickles, chutneys, and relishes — is the simplest and most forgiving form of garden preservation. A guide to using the full harvest including produce that …
Warrigal greens (New Zealand spinach) grows as a drought-tolerant groundcover and produces edible leaves year-round in warm climates. It requires blanching before eating — learn …
Preserve your summer herb harvest to feed the kitchen through winter — matching each herb to its best preservation method for maximum flavour retention.
Sea kale (Crambe maritima) is a coastal European perennial brassica that, once established, produces new growth each spring for 10–20 years — blanched under a pot or forcing ja…
Freezing is the simplest and most flavour-preserving method for most garden vegetables — a guide to preparation techniques, blanching, and organisation that maximises quality and…
A food dehydrator turns gluts of tomatoes, herbs, fruit, and vegetables into shelf-stable products that retain far more flavour and nutrition than canned equivalents.
Freeze-drying preserves more flavour and nutrition than any other preservation method — but the equipment cost is significant. An honest assessment for Australian home gardeners.
Saltbush (Atriplex) is one of Australia's most drought-tolerant native plants and is gaining recognition as a culinary ingredient with remarkable nutritional density and a complex …
Florence fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum) produces the crisp, anise-flavoured bulbs used in Italian cooking — sliced raw in salads, roasted, or braised with white wine a…
Warrigal greens (Tetragonia tetragonioides) is a native Australian leafy green used by Joseph Banks as an antiscorbutic by Captain Cook's crew — and still one of the most useful …
The Italian method for dealing with a glut of tomatoes. Learn blanching, skinning, cooking down, and bottling passata in sterilised jars that keep in the pantry for 12 months.
Celery is finicky but worth it. Learn the 10-12 week indoor start, consistent watering, blanching for tender stalks, and why most home-grown celery is actually better than store-bo…
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