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SEPTEMBER ISSUE
- Free seeds: heirloom tomatoes plus the perfect companion plant – basil
- Landscaping kit: everything you need to design your dream backyard
- Raised garden beds: expert tips on building, buying and filling them
- Outdoor rooms: Don Burke says they’ve been a great idea for centuries, and still are
- Salad tower: great-looking space-saving way to grow your own greens
In the Garden
Free seeds
Attached to the front cover, three superb heirloom tomato varieties to plant now, plus seeds of the perfect flavour companion, Genovese basil.
Landscaping kit
Design your own dream backyard with our free landscaping kit, which includes graph paper, gorgeous icons, plus expert tips on how to do it
Outdoor rooms
Don Burke’s inspiring tips on how to design your own outdoor room
Raised garden beds
Elizabeth Swane has shopping tips on all your options on raised bed kits, shows how to build your own, and advises on the best soil mixes for them, too
DIY salad tower
Save on space with this brilliant planting idea using a variety of salad greens and pots in three different sizes
Salad season
How to grow all your favourite salad greens, plus some new ones which add extra colour and flavour to your healthy salads
The best spring in years
Our spring special says now is your golden opportunity to replant and revive your garden, as the spring of 2010 should be a great one
Jim Fogarty's garden designs
This beautiful coastal garden makes the most of the views and blends into the bushland just like it’s a local
Once were michelias
Peter Valder explains how and why most of the michelias have now been renamed as magnolias
DIY bromeliad pot
We show a beautiful new way to pot up bromeliads for designer looks
In your climate
Jobs to do this month from our expert gardening team around Australia and NZ
Hands on
Lawn care tips, dividing bromeliads, mulching, how to sow pumpkin seeds, planting dahlias and geranium cuttings
Crushed sandstone soils
This is a popular type of ‘soil’ for growing natives, but do read Don’s tips on how to tell whether crushed sandstone soils are actually good quality – some are not!
Award winning garden design
Jim Fogarty’s stunning rainforest garden design has taken out a major international garden design award in Singapore
Plant profile
Crossandras: in warm climate gardens, these brilliant flowering shrubs dazzle with vivid colour; don’t miss our plant profile
Simple living
The Carroll family are proof that you can build a super backyard, including chook sheds, by recycling timbers from the local area
Designing with flowers
Great advice from the experts who put together the Floriade displays
Pets & Lifestyle
Bursting into bloom
Sandy de Beyer’s decorating ideas using flowers, florals and imagination
Grills and salads
Healthy recipes from Tracy Rutherford’s kitchen
Chris Brown's pets
Dr Chris Brown clears up some strange ideas some people have about their pets
Shaking salt
Rosemary Stanton helps you to lower your salt intake, and understand how to find the salt content on food labels
Vet Q&A
Chris Brown answers your pet care and behaviour questions
Greyhounds
When these docile dogs aren't sprinting, they just love to laze around the house
Ancona chooks
As well as having stunning plumage, these chooks are pretty good layers, too
Martyn Robinson's Backyard Wildlife
Is that cute critter visiting your garden a marsupial or just a rat?
Readers' photos
Stunning photos from BBY’s talented readers – the best one wins a one-year subscription plus a super printer
Don's mailbag
Readers’ letters and feedback, Dear Don, mine’s bigger than yours, and lots more
This month's crossword
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