Gardening Australia episode 10 2020: Jane Edmanson explores the plants behind our favourite Easter treats, Josh Byrne visits a home garden celebrating native WA plants and Sophie Thomson discovers how a revegetation project is uniting a neighbourhood.
Gardening Australia has always provided practical, trustworthy and credible gardening advice to inspire and entertain. Inspiring, entertaining and full of practical advice, join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they unearth gardening ideas, meet avid gardeners and look at some of the most inspiring gardens from across the country.
Gardening Australia episode 10 2020
Chook Lookbook
Costa visits an expert in backyard chickens to explore the best breeds for the home garden. Costa heads to Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula to meet a woman with a passion for poultry, and profiles the best backyard breeds. And why wouldn’t you want them? Sure, they provide us with eggs, but they are also champion composters, perfect pest control, living fertiliser factories, and pretty great pets.
Fleur Baker knows chickens, having kept them for the bulk of her life. Self-described ‘Head Chook’ at her property, Fleur has been recommending chickens for schools, community gardens and private properties for many years, and has some clucking great suggestions for people looking to keep their own chooks.
FAQs – Lawns without mowing | Plants for hot spots | Subtropical tomatoes
Gardening Australia presenters answer commonly asked gardening questions.
Coastal Native Design
Josh visits a landscape designer whose coastal home garden celebrates the local flora.
Homemade Herb Salt
Jane shows how to make herb salt to add flavour to food and use up some excess herbs from the garden.
As we all know, there is nothing that compares to the taste of homegrown herbs, but it can often be a bit of a feast or a famine with our favourites seasonally. There are loads of methods for preserving excess herbs, but this one is simple, easy and can be shared with friends as beautiful, homegrown last-minute gifts.
Food Foundations
Tino and his family are hard at work laying the foundations of on their biggest patch yet – a large-scale market garden at his home. In the family vegie patch, named the Garden of Eden after his daughter, Eden, who is largely responsible for the plantings, there is an abundance of delicious crops that have kept the family well-fed for months. Lettuce, tomato varieties, kale, along with red and green shallots are ready to be harvested, with the latter to be cleaned and hung in a cool, dry place, and used as required over winter.
Pumpkin vines are running rampant in the plot, and a clever tip from Tino sees the growing tips of the vines snipped off, just above young, developing fruits. This forces the growth to run laterally, rather than out over the pathways, keeping this vigorous vine in check.
In-Cider Trading
Millie drops in on a family cider distillery growing 40 different traditional apple varieties.
Growing Community
Sophie discovers how growing seedlings for revegetation projects has brought together four families in suburban Adelaide. As we all know, everybody needs good neighbours, and neighbourly relations are easily achieved when common interests are shared. In Cumberland Park, Adelaide, a shared passion has done more than bring residents together – it’s helped revegetate precious bushland.
Under the Trees for Life tree growing scheme, neighbours Jasmin, Jake, Patrick and Laura Mallon, Julie and Scoob Raynes and Nick and Sue Carboon have turned parts of their patches into propagation stations for South Australian indigenous trees and shrubs.
Top Tip – Jackfruit
Jerry Colby-Williams shows us how to prepare home-grown jackfruit. One of the great joys about gardening in the subtropics is the huge amount of delicious fruits that can be grown by the home gardeners, including one of Jerry’s favourites.
Jackfruit, Artocarpus heterophyllus cv., when produced on old, mature trees can weigh in at over 30kgs, making it the biggest fruit on earth. Jerry’s fruit is much smaller, given his tree is only a few years old, but the fruit itself is no less impressive.
Being a member of the Moraceae family, Jackfruit stems have a milky sap to ward off hungry predators, but Jerry has an additional trick up his sleeve – old stockings. Young Jackfruit is appealing to critters like flying foxes and possums, so Jerry covers young, developing fruits with a stocking to deter nighttime nibblers.
Spice Up Your Life
Chocolate, spice and all things nice – Jane takes us on a tasty trip to the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne to introduce us to the plants behind our favourite Easter treats.
My Garden Path – Nicole Thomas
We meet a botanical perfumer to learn about how she combines her love for plants with the world of scent.
