Project Guides & Articles

Grow A Butterfly Garden

Here's our quick guide to NZ butterflies, plus how to look after them. Read on for tips on how to grow swan plants, for the full Monarch experience!

How to Propagate Plants, by Layering

‘Layering’ is a type of plant propagation where new stems remain attached to the parent plant, while they develop their own roots. Here's how to do it and get free plants!

Get an early start for your heat-lover vegies

A challenge with growing heat-loving vegies is getting started early enough to give them a long enough growing season. In cooler areas it can be a nail-biting race against winter when you’re waiting for your harvest, so get ahead of the game!

Useful Tools

Seasonal Garden Calendar

Every month we have lots of seasonal tips and advice to get your plants in good health and thriving. We look forward to helping you and answering any questions you may have.

Seed Finder

What to know what to plant? When to plant? How to grow? We have everything that you need right here! Yates offers a wonderful tool to pick the best seeds for you, it is unique, useful and available right now!

Yates Garden Community

The future is here, the team at Yates HQ are excited to share the future of our Garden Community and how you can get involved! Stay tuned!

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