Real World Gardener-Horticulture, Gardening, Learning to Grow

Take Care of Trees on Real World Gardener pt 1

Host Marianne talks with arboriculture consultant Glenice Buck about the first steps in managing the health of your trees.

Mushroom Plant on Real World Gardener radio show

 KITCHEN GARDEN SEGMENT  on REAL WORLD GARDENER radio show Scientific Name: Rungia klossii Common name: Mushroom plant Family: Acanthaceae Origin: New Guinea   Rungi

Growing Dwarf Beans in the Kitchen Garden on Real World Gardener

 KITCHEN GARDEN Beans and More Beans What is your favourite warm season vegetable or are there too many to choose from? Top of the list for many a gardener is the humble

Vietnamese Mint in the Kitchen Garden on Real World Gardener

 KITCHEN GARDEN Is Vietnamese mint really a mint? Scientific Name: Persicaria odorata Common Name:Vietnamese mint Family: Polygonaceae True mints botanically speaking

Grow, Harvest, Eat Yacon on Real World Gardener

 THE GOOD EARTH How to Grow and Use Yacon: Peruvian Ground Apple Scientific Name: Smallanthus sonchifolius Common Name: Yacon, Peruvian ground apple Family: Asteraceae-

Flowers Have Their Seasons on Real World Gardener

 TALKING FLOWERS Seasonality of Flowers Vegetables have their season when they’re available fresh and not just out of the cold room where they’ve been for 6 months or mor

Spice Up Food with Furikake on Real World Gardener

 SPICE IT UP Furikake: Japanese seasoning Isn't it time you enlivened your tastes buds with something you've never tried before? This next spice isn’t just one spice on

Leaf Celery in the Kitchen Garden

 KITCHEN GARDEN Leaf Celery Scientific Name:Apium graveolens var. secalinum Plant family: Apiaceae Common Name: Parcel   A relatively uncommon or even unkown herb or veg

Cardamom in Cooking on Real World Gardener

 SPICE IT UP Know Your Cardamoms. There are many budding chefs and cooks that use heaps of spices in their recipes going by the success of cooking shows on television. G

Choosing the Freshest Flowers on Real World Gardener

 TALKING FLOWERS    Tips on Choosing the Freshest Flowers Do you regularly buy a bunch of fresh flowers to brighten up your home? Do you find that no matter which ones y

Drying Flowers on Real World Gardener

TALKING FLOWERS Dried Flowers and How To Do Them Did you know that dried flowers are back in fashion? Perhaps, like me you thought that never went out of fashion, but do

Drinks and tricks with Horseradish on Real World Gardener

 KITCHEN GARDEN Tricks with Horseradish My father was a big fan of this vegetable or perhaps it should be called a herb? He loved it grated on various meats, ‘clears out

What Is Sustainable Floristry in Real World Gardener

 TALKING FLOWERS Sustainable Floristry Have you ever thought about what happens to the tons of flowers that are sold around Australia for weddings, funerals, special occa

Root Knot Nematode Control on Real World Gardener

Root Knot Nematodes:Control So if you have correctly identified that your plants are affected by root knot nematodes, what can be done about it? Remember, they look diffe

What are Root Knot Nematodes on Real World Gardener

 PLANT DOCTOR Nematodes part 1: the backstory Did you know that there are 1,000,000 species of nematodes that have been identified?  Nematodes live in our environment an

Success with Germinating Australian Native Seeds on Real World Gardener

 PLANT DOCTOR     Germinating Native Seed Australian plants have evolved over thousands of years to respond to a variety of climatic extremes, from fires, to droughts to

Pruning Australian Native Plants on Real World Gardener

PLANT DOCTOR Pruning Native Plants For some reason, many gardeners have been reluctant to prune their native plants, thinking that if they did, those plants might never r

How to Get Longer Lasting Flowers on Real World Gardener

 TALKING FLOWERS Tips For Longer Lasting Flowers in the Vase Flowers are so uplifting and whilst they’re lovely in the garden, in the home, you’ve got them to enjoy for l

Mixed Shrub Borders are in again on Real World Gardener

 DESIGN ELEMENTS This is a series about foliage colour and contrast and textural contrast  for year round interest. The focus is also on non-general lines instead of prod

Lemon Verbena in the Kitchen Garden

KITCHEN GARDEN   LEMON VERBENA Did you think that herbs were just for making tea? Maybe not, but some herbs have endless uses, and this week I’m featuring the herb lemon