Kevin Carl Heinze (1 April 1928[1] – 1 September 2008) was a pioneering presenter of gardening on television in Australia.
He hosted a gardening program for ABC Television entitled Sow What, which was mostly shot on location at his one-hectare home garden in Montrose, an outer suburb of Melbourne, from 1967 to 1988.
[2] Following the death of his eight-year-old daughter Kim in 1974, an open day, attended by 50,000 people, was held at his garden to raise money for cancer research.
[4] He and his wife Jill eventually raised over half a million dollars for cancer research.
[1][2] Most of his garden was donated to the local shire council to enable the public to visit in the future.