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Best orange varieties for backyards   Valencia: the seedless ‘Valencia’ orange is the best orange variety for most areas of Australia. It has few or no seeds. It is a fast-growing, hardy tree. The fruit...

2UE parsley tips and recipes Like most herbs, parsley likes to be grown in a mostly sunny spot, but parsley is versatile in that it can take some shade through the day. In fact, in very hot...

Passionfruit don’t ripen after picking, but those passionfruit which fall to the ground and look a bit wrinkled are usually perfectly OK to eat. You can store passionfruit in the fridge for a couple of weeks, and they should keep...

Pears notes Pears are wonderful eaten on their own. Either choose from traditional pear varieties such as Williams, Packham, Beurre Bosc or Corella, all of which you eat when ripe. Or just go out and try the wonderful, crisp,...

August issue Burke's Backyard magazine’s spud-growing guide In the August issue of Burke’s Backyard magazine, on sale Monday, July 28, you’ll find our special kitchen garden feature on growing potatoes on page 96. It includes two easy and delicious...

International Year Of The Potato 2008 is the International Year of the Potato. To find out more, visit the website (see the link below). It includes recipes from around the world, and lots of different pages to...

Harvesting pumpkins When ripe, pumpkins will have taken on their ripe colour (which varies with the variety you have grown) and the stem which connects the fruit to the plant will have dried and become wrinkly and...

Quinces The quince (Cydonia oblonga) is an excellent backyard fruit tree for cooler parts of Australia. No wonder it is becoming trendy again, because it has several things going for it: it’s small (around 4-5m, but they...

    2009 archive   For our grapes recipes, click here For our capsicum recipes, click here For our figs recipes, click here For our hot herbs and sage...

Rhubarb tips and recipes Autumn is rhubarb-harvesting time, so it’s at its best in the shops. • It’s usually sold in bunches, but sometimes stalks are sold individually. About 8-10 stalks makes a bunch, enough...