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.