Home improvement

There is nothing like a home-grown tomato, all warm from the sun and not just sweet but incredibly full of flavour. You just haven't eaten a tomato until you've had one straight from the garden!

If you are longing to plant your vegies now, but the soil still feels cold when you sit on it, satisfy your gardening longings by planting out some spuds. Potatoes can be planted when the soil is still cold, as long as the soil isn’t frozen solid — if it is the potatoes will rot. […]

Want to know what to plant this month? Look no further.

Television audiences were finally able to see what happened when The Block: Glasshouse went under the hammer and the results were devastating.

Brothers Shannon and Simon Voss are the winners of The Block Glasshouse! Here's how all the other couples went on auction day.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has purchased an extravagant eco-friendly New York apartment complete with vitamin shower and wellness concierge.

Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and his wife Kyly have splashed out on an $8.5 million harbour side mansion in Vaucluse.

The former Miss Universe’s North Curl Curl beach pad is up for sale for an undisclosed sum.

Tennis star Lleyton Hewitt and his wife, Bec, are selling their Palm Beach trophy-home, seeking offers over $5.5 million.

Proper vegie gardens are long neat beds, with rows of cabbages or lettuce and obediently staked tomatoes. They can look both ludicrous and productive. There’s a long tradition, in fact, of “potager” gardens, vegies planted with an eye to beauty as well as usefulness, spirals set in stone or pebbles, circles like small vegie fountains […]