Returning: Gardening Australia

New episodes of Gardening Australia, with Costa Georgiadis, return to ABC1 for 2013 on Saturday March 16 at 6.30pm.

Here’s the stories in the first episode:

City Excess – Part 1
Costa Georgiadi
Costa meets a retired teacher collecting food waste bound for landfill and redistributing it to local gardeners who put it to use in their gardens.

Sowing the Seeds
Sophie Thomson
Sophie’s teaching her kids about growing plants from seed in fun and interesting ways.

Putting Waste to Work – Part 2
Costa Georgiadis
Costa visits an inner city garden packed full of productive plants where food waste is used to fuel the compost, chickens and abundant garden growth.

The Value of Volunteers
Jerry Coleby-WIlliams
Jerry shows how to identify useful volunteers in the garden and make use of them.

Musk Farm
Jane Edmanson
Jane explores a garden in regional Victoria created with experimentation and creativity.