Garden beds

In restaurants today, green is the new black, and kitchen gardens bring greater bragging-rights than kitchen kit. Here, some of our top gardener-chefs share their thoughts on good things to plant at home to spice up your menus in the year to come.

A quick grower with a pleasing flavour, the red beard onion truly delivers – in both name and nature, writes Mat Pember.

Thinking of spending a little time in the dirt this summer? Mat Pember from The Little Veggie Patch Co has some tips.

A new Sydney horticultural extravaganza featuring chocolate? Sweet.

The beans are planted, the peach trees are laden with fruit and the hydrangeas are abuzz with bees in Stephanie Alexander’s garden.

The Lorraine Lee rose has climbed beyond the trellis and the Gertrude Jekyll is rambling over the house, and although the carrots and silverbeet continue to flourish, Stephanie Alexander names the broad beans her star crop this month.

Spring has sprung in Stephanie Alexander’s garden...

This month, Stephanie Alexander cuts back the capsicum bushes and cooks the cumquats down to jam.

In Stephanie Alexander’s winter garden the oakleaf is self-seeding, the rhubarb thriving, broad beans are flowering and the cumquats are ripe for the marmalade pot.

Stephanie Alexander braves the chilly winds to tend her herbs and admire the camellias’ generous blooms.

As the days become short and the evenings turn cold, Stephanie Alexander monitors the progress of the brassicas and prepares to plant garlic.

Stephanie Alexander’s garden has kept her busy this month – shelling almonds, picking climbing beans and competing with possums for her Jonathan apples.

The pomegranate tree is in flower and the sweet peas have been sown, but while Stephanie Alexander enjoyed a pear crop, the parrots enjoyed the crabapples.

A pesky possum has managed to outsmart Stephanie Alexander yet again, but thankfully the doughnut peaches and tomatoes have escaped damage.

As Stephanie Alexander heads off on holiday with hungry kids in tow, she’s hoping her vegetable garden survives the heat and pests.

Stephanie Alexander takes the Kitchen Garden Foundation story to Turin, receives princely praise and juggles bountiful summer crops.

Stephanie Alexander has hauled her Christmas tree in from the garden and is busy protecting her stone fruit from possums and birds.