What to grow Salad greens are one of the best things you can grow in a kitchen garden, and spring is the ideal time to get started. As well as growing lettuce, and there are many varieties to choose from, it’s good to add variety to your salad with other greens such...
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 ripen early (mid-September), but hold well on the tree for many...
Mango ( Mangifera indica ) Mangoes are medium-sized evergreen tree 8-12m tall, 5-7m wide with dark green leaves and fist-sized yellow-apricot fruit. They like a warm, sheltered position and well-drained soil and they do best in the tropics and subtropics, although...
By midsummer, many gardeners will have one major problem with chillies – there are too many of them! Turning chillies into paste is dead easy, so is freezing them. Making chilli oil is good fun, but drying them is sometimes harder than it might seem. So let’s...
Green Mango Salad 1 small green mango, peeled, flesh cut into matchsticks 2 tablespoons shallots, sliced finely 1 tablespoon fresh coriander leaves 1 tablespoon fresh mint leaves, chopped 2 tablespoons chopped roasted peanuts 2 teaspoons dried garlic flakes,...
We think cherry tomatoes are one of the very best tomatoes you can grow in backyards. • Cherry tomatoes have loads of that famous real tomato flavour • Pests such as fruit fly don’t seem to attack cherry tomatoes as often as they do the larger types of tomatoes •...
In the October 2009 issue of Burke’s Backyard magazine, on sale now nationally, our Kitchen Garden special feature is all about growing vegies and fruits in pots – and cherry tomatoes are a wonderful choice for containers (or growing in the ground, for that...
Seafood & Green Papaya Salad with Hot & Sour Dressing 250g cooked prawns peeled and deveined 250g squid cleaned and sliced 1 cup shredded green pawpaw 6 golden shallots, finely sliced 1 tablespoon finely chopped lemon grass 1 tablespoon finely shredded kaffir...
Steamed fish with ginger and shallots Steam a whole fish with a handful of thin matchsticks of ginger on top of the fish, and once the fish is cooked (the flesh should begin to flake) sprinkle the fish with 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and 4 tablespoons chopped...
Preparing broad beans is a labour of love. I’m not going to pretend they’re easy, but as the old saying goes – they’re worth it. Unlike other vegies which are available year-round, broad beans are one of those vegies that has a distinct season. They’re in the shops...