We chatted with Karen Sutherland from Edible Eden Design and co-author of best-selling tomato guide 'Tomato - Know, Grow, Sow, Feast' about what inspired her new book and her top tips for growing great tomatoes in the Vegepod! Firstly, congrats on your award-winning book ‘Tomato - Know, Grow, Sow, Feast’ - all about growing tommies in the home -...

In July last year, we introduced the Sprouters Junior School Program - a program plan for teachers and primary school students that shows how to use the Vegepod to create school-friendly green spaces which teach our youth about growing your own food. This year, Sacred Heart Catholic School in Mona Vale, have gone one better - creating their own ...

Over the years we've tried in different ways to comprehensively, all-in-one explain the benefits of our Vegepod raised garden bed. Now, however, with the help of our friends over at filmmotion.com.au, we've created a 3D animation video that demonstrates the many uses and features that make the Vegepod raised garden bed so successful, for so man...

We’ve been reminded by a few pics coming through that there are multiple uses for the Vegepod. Besides being an excellent grower of delicious fruits, greens and veggies - the Vegepod is also great for non-edible purposes such as ornamentals, houseplants, smudge sticks, potpourris, herbal teas and even botanical soaps. Here’s a collection of pics...

Some of you might remember a blog we did around Australia Day titled ‘Our House: Celebrating ‘HomeGrown’ A Gardening Program for Community Housing Residents’. It’s about the HomeGrown community program Vegepod has set up with the help of Southern Cross University and the Federal Government. The aim of HomeGrown is to assist social housing groups...

We we're going through Vegepod blog ideas when we realised - we've never done a blog explaining the benefits of the Vegepod garden cover.    This may seem old hat to some of our long time Podders but for newbies to the Podding world, this blog explains the function and benefits of the cover and will hopefully help you understand and use your Pod...

We’ve mentioned square foot gardening before on the Vegepod blog. It’s a genius idea invented by Mel Bartholomew that helps reduce tilling and ‘space-waste’ while you plan out your raised garden bed. In this blog, we’ll go over how you can plan out a square foot garden (SFG) in the Vegepod (for small, medium or large pods) and we’ll give some ‘A...

The Easter long weekend is coming up! (Sunday 21st.) That means one of two things. If you’re a parent/grandparent you have kids everywhere. If you’re kid-free, you’ve got some nice you-time to consider. Either way, if you’re wondering what to do this Easter here are four DIY ideas to consider (aside from eating large amounts of chocolate, of cou...

We’ve received some cracking reviews lately on our customer service and wanted to do a shout out to everyone who reviews us and to our staff for making Vegepod a service-first company! Since the beginning, owners Matt, Paul and Simon all agreed that good old fashioned customer service was a top priority no matter how Vegepod evolved. Now, we hav...