Grow It Yourself
Magazines in the Grow it Yourself sector at Express Publications include the titles Simply Organics, Your Vegie Patch, Creative Landscaping, Grow It Yourself and Natives. The Grow It Yourself magazines bring readers easy-to-use information on propagating, growing and harvesting a variety of plants, flowers, vegetables, fruits and herbs suited to the home gardener, plus give expert advice on landscaping. The magazines cover relevant topics such as design, selecting fertilisers, pest and disease control and plant care and provide gardeners with tips, hints, advice and general knowledge to have readers living a healthier and greener life at home.
Most Popular Grow It Yourself
Grow It Yourself
Tempting the greenest of thumbs to the beginner gardeners, we reveal advice on how you can make the most of your garden. Find expert solutions to common problems and tips on all your home grown produce.
Fruit Tree TLC
So, you’ve got yourself a fruit tree. It doesn’t matter how it got there – an inherited tree in a new property purchase, a hilarious drunken prank after one too many with the horticulture club, a benevolent gift from aliens...
Managing Pests and Diseases
Summer’s here and the pests are having a party at the expense of your vegie patch. There’s a general yellowing, and some strange furry growths… That seems like a fairly typical warm summer period in the garden to me. It can,...
Using Veg to get Ahead
A lighthearted look at how home-grown produce can save you money.
Grow chicken feed (good for guinea pigs too)
Animals such as chickens and guinea pigs love to forage on green scraps, so feed them leftovers or...
How to Grow Your Savings
If you like gardening and you like money, read on ... Just because you want to save money doesn’t make you a miser or a pauper. In fact, saving money in the garden is more about taking a holistic approach, doing the best you can with the...
Coastal Gardening
Living by the ocean may be the great Australian dream, but it brings with it a whole lot of challenges for growing your own produce. There wouldn’t be many people who, at some point in their life, hadn’t dreamt of living a laidback...
Continual Harvesting
Making sure you have a constant supply of fruits and vegies is all about planning. Growing your own food has a host of advantages – but how do you make sure the supply doesn’t run out? A visit to the local grocery store at any time of...
Healing Herbs
Many gardeners are returning to the old traditions such as using Mother Nature’s bounty to cure common ailments. For many gardeners, growing their own produce at home is driven by several things – taste, cost and necessity being some...
Pocket-size Self-sufficiency
You don’t need a farm to feed yourself; heck, you don’t even need soil! One of my TAFE teachers told us a story about how his grandfather in Holland kept his whole street alive during WWII by feeding them from a vegie patch he created...