INFO SHEET: Creative composting
Composting turns our kitchen and garden wastes into plant food — almost 50 percent of waste produced in the home can be composted.
February 2021
INFO SHEET: Creating good soils
Fertile, nutritious soils are the basis of prolific, productive organic gardens.
INFO SHEET: No-dig or mulch gardening
No-dig gardening reuses waste newspaper and cardboard. Food and garden wastes are turned into compost. Recycled materials such as crushed concrete, bricks, pavers, wood chip and sawdust can be reused to make paths and garden edges.
INFO SHEET: Using water wisely
Combined with the compost and mulch, harvesting and using rainwater is another water-conserving technique...
INFO SHEET: Making a food forest
In designing our home or community garden we can increase the quantity and diversity of food it yields if we include a forest garden, sometimes called a food forest or an orchard.
INFO SHEET: Managing garden pests
Integrated Pest Management — known as IPM — is the smart approach to managing garden pests.
INFO SHEET: Crop rotation
Crop rotation moves different types of vegetables through the same garden bed over time.
INFO SHEET: Container gardens
It’s not just apartment dwellers who benefit from container gardening.
INFO SHEET: Verge gardening
The established practice of planting native and exotic plants on the verge, the space between the footpath and the road, extends habitat for wildlife in our cities. Now, the growing of food extends habitat for humans.
Design guidelines for street verge gardens
Before we rush out to replace the nature strip lawn with vegetables, there are a few design considerations...
