Tips for winter gardening in the Macedon Ranges

Tips for getting your garden ready for Spring in the Macedon Ranges

Tips for our region for staking broadbeans, eliminating curly leaf, mulching and more

Tips for our region for ripening those last tomatoes, planting garlic and more

Don’t panic and pull out your tomato plants just yet, sowing green manure and cold season veggies, fruit tree care. Jobs to do in the garden now in our region…

Growing tomatoes, brassicas, root crops and managing those pests and diseases. Jobs to do in the garden now in our region…

Time for mulching, pumpkin care and hand pollination….Read on for gardening tips for our region

Tomato care, growing salad greens and netting fruit trees….Read on for gardening tips for our region

This is a list of Australian seed sources, all of these businesses provide some locally grown seed as a minimum; some franchise the growing of some seed and some will import seed to expand their offerings.

Jobs to do in your garden in the Macedon Ranges in June

Tips for buying bare rooted fruit trees, jobs in the garden, what to plant and sow now in preparation for winter. Photo Credit: Mel Mackie

In this month’s edition, you will find a planting and sowing guide for our area and ways to manage slugs and other garden pests and our beloved cockies!

Broad beans are a fabulously easy plant to grow in the Ranges, producing copious beans for many delicious dishes. Annie Reeve and Lucy Campbell give the low down on how to grow and eat the plant as part of their weekly Harvest to Table series.

Annie Reeves from the Permaculture Garden and Lucy Campbell from Veg Action share some insights into how to grow rhubarb in the Macedon Ranges, and some of the best ways to eat it.

Once again Lucy Campbell from Veg Action and Annie Reeve from the Woodend community garden have us drooling over delicious food and confident we can grow it. This week taking inspiration from Fabulous Fennel.

In this short blog, Annie Reeve from the permaculture garden shares tips on growing artichokes, a dramatic garden plant which is also a delicious addition to any diet.

Are asparagus tips popping up in your garden? Annie Reeves from the Woodend permaculture garden and Lucy Campbell from Veg Action share their joy for (and knowledge of) growing and cooking asparagus.

Beetroot is such a fabulous vegetable; seriously easy to grow, versatile and tasty. Here Annie Reeves from the Woodend permaculture garden and Lucy Campbell from Veg Action explore growing and eating the delicious plant; leaves and all.

In the second instalment of the ‘From garden to table’ series, Annie Reeve (Woodend Permaculture Garden) and Lucy Campbell (Veg Action) talk about growing and eating the delicious broccoli.

Someone once told me when I had just moved to Woodend that, “tomatoes are a Melbourne thing”. Yet, I wasn’t deterred. Like many other home gardeners from Hobart to Darwin, I set myself a personal quest to get the most out of my tomato plants, in spite of the unpromising climate.

Sowing seed for the vegetable garden in April chiefly is limited to Broad Beans, Smooth Coated Shelling Peas, Summer Leeks, Greens for the Greenhouse and Bulbing Onions.