New Book “Tomato”- All Your Questions Answered and More

Tomato – Know, Sow, Grow, Feast, 2018 This new book by Penny Woodward, Janice Sutton and Karen Sutherland makes a major contribution to providing…

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Growing Plants from Seed

If you would like to have an attractive and productive garden which doesn’t cost a packet and which allows a wider range of choice than is available…

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Crowd Seed Harvests

Tiny Trowel, a relatively new initiative, seeks to engage the wider community to supply excess fresh fruit and veggies from back yard gardens to…

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Know Your Seeds

What’s in a seed? A seed contains the blueprint or instructions to produce a new plant. Traditionally all seeds were open-pollinated. That is, the…

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Soil Blocks – Starting Seedlings Organically

Soil blocking is a sustainable way to start seedlings. Efficient, easy, fun and great for growing strong healthy seedlings, soil blocks are used in…

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Growing Herbs, Vegetables & Flowering Annuals from Seed

Growing from seed is fun and rewarding as well as being very cost effective. You can access a much broader variety of plants than those that are…

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Plant Propagation from Cuttings

How often do we see a lovely shrub or perennial in a friend’s garden and just wish we had one like it? And with a little skill, ingenuity AND your…

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The Importance of Heritage Fruit Trees

This post has been submitted by one of SGA's Cuttings readers. See the bottom of this post for info on how you too can contribute to our website. In…

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Growing Summer Veggies From Seed

If you love growing your own vegetables over summer then you’ll be pleased to know that many of them are easily grown from seed. The most popular…

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Growing From Hardwood Cuttings

A cutting is a piece of stem, a leaf, or root that develops roots when placed in suitable medium and in the right conditions. It's very satisfying…

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Swapping Seeds

It seems to be quite a common practice to swap seeds with overseas friends and relatives. This seemingly benign and happy pastime has a dark side…

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Grafted Plants Explained

It’s easy to get yourself totally confused and muddled when immersed in the heady world of horticulture – hybrids, cultivars, cross pollination…the…

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Moon Planting

No Torch Required Long, long ago in a city far, far away, I was a novice gardener with very limited horticultural knowledge (yes, I know it’s hard…

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