Kent & Stowe Border Hand Fork

Courgettes or zucchinis are a summer vege garden staple for many Kiwi gardeners. With bright yellow flowers, they have a wide range of uses; grated into salads, stir-fries, quiches and preserves, or sliced and grilled on the BBQ. Check out answers to common problems and tips to courgette success.

Add some beautiful blooms and sweet scents to your winter garden! We've put together a list of our favourite winter flowering shrubs so you can enjoy a pop of colour and fragrance through the colder months.

There are native plants for all garden situations, read on for our top native plants for places. 

My father Fred was famous for his tomatoes. His vines produced prolifically, and the fruit was always amazingly sweet and flavoursome. For Fred, growing good tomatoes was all about seaweed. Once or twice a year, we kids would be enlisted to help him gather the fine seagrass weed that grew in the tidal estuaries around Pauatahanui. Vast rafts of this stinky stuff would wash up after a big storm and we would walk for miles to fill big sacks of the stuff, then lug them back down the long beach before the tide got too high. The sacks were so heavy it always took two of us to hiff them into the boot.