How to grow garlic in a small garden
In my small city veggie patch, self-sufficiency is a pipedream. There’s not the room to grow enough food to meet all my needs — nor do I have the time or energy for that mountain of work. But a few years back, I thought it would be fun to experiment with one crop I could […]
How to kill off your lawn and plant a native garden instead
Lawns are a lot of work and not everybody’s idea of a visually appealing backyard. Many of us are looking to create a native garden as a lower maintenance, more sustainable and often cheaper alternative. “Lawns are what we call high input with low output,” says horticulturist Helen Tuton, assets manager at Southern Metropolitan […]