2. Good Organic Gardening - March-April 2016

CONTENTS
Contents
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6 Editor’s Note
Autumn has arrived and the
nights and mornings are bringing
a chill in the air in some parts
8 The Grapevine
With medical marijuana now
legalised in a number of
countries, Jo Immig says it’s time
10 What’s Hot
Horticulturist Melissa King
profiles some lovely specimens
to spruce up your garden
12 & 14 Clever Crops
This issue, Jennifer Stackhouse
looks at catnip and Australian
native midyim berry
16 Plant Profile
Broccoli wasn’t always the
popular vegie it is now thanks to
our Italian immigrants
20 Power Plants
Herbal teas can be therapeutic
22
or just a refreshing drink; here
are some of our favourites
22 Family Heirloom
Crab apples are often grown for
their gorgeous blossom displays,
but there’s plenty you can do
with the fruit
26 Gardening Folk
This is one very serious — and
clever — fruit and vegie gardener
who lives south of Melbourne
30 Gardening Folk
Family traditions of food growing
run deep for this Queensland
couple, who hail from Poland
34 Gardening Folk
Artistic talent and gardening
skills come together in this
NSW Central Coast garden
38 Weekend Gardening
Attract bees and other
pollinators to your place with this
selection of flowering plants
41 Organic Living
Epsom salts, otherwise known as
magnesium sulphate or MgSo 4
,
can do wonders for some plants
44 Time to Plant
Eat your greens, as Mum always
said: health-giving English spinach
and superfood kale
46 Things to Do
Going into autumn there’s plenty to
do in the patch and outside it, such
as seed saving and preserving
50 Biodynamics Basics
Part I of Claire Bickle’s easyto-follow
explanation of the
fundamentals of biodynamics
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