Good magazine’s “Gardening Special” (issue 77) is filled with inspiration for novices and gardening aficionados. It covers everything from gardening for wellbeing to what to plant, apartment gardens, vertical gardens and more, as well as super salad recipes from Two Raw Sisters to make from your
Edible landscaping, or ‘foodscaping’, is a huge trend in gardening right now, with fruits and veges taking centre stage. With edible landscaping, the focus is on planting food plants rather than purely ornamental plants – anything from a few pots filled with herbs, to entire backyards
Words by Kahu de Beer An easy step-by-step guide to composting. In our household, taking the compost out has become the job the kids have to do when they’re misbehaving. You hit your sister – ‘right, that’s it! Take out the compost’. Not listening to mum
How to turn your garden into an earth ally.It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all we hear about climate change, and it seems the effects of it are increasingly being felt on our precious planet. Among the negative voices, however, there are a number of
Words Laurian Brown, Mandy Allen. Photography Lar Leslie and Warren Heath Broaden your botanical horizons and expand your indoor gardening repertoire to include succulents and cacti – sculptural, striking and adapted to survive. Looking after succulents Succulents are plants with fleshy stems or leaves, designed to store water
Systems in nature work together in harmony, and through permaculture we can apply the same principles to the way we farm – or grow our veggies. These past few months we’ve been staying on a farm in Northland and getting an insight into rural life. We’ve
Discover the simple pleasures of macramé with this easy hanger Macramé is an ancient craft dating from Babylonian times. At its most basic, twine or string is cut into lengths and retied using a series of knots. But macramé can also be very ornate, involving hundreds
