Productive style
- Build raised sleeper beds yourself
(using sleepers or blocks), or buy off-the-
shelf raised beds, which can be positioned
on cleared ground and filled with soil.
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Plot or pots?
The prerequisites for
a successful vegetable
garden are pretty simple
– good soil, sun and water.
If you have a spacious
backyard, you can
dedicate a separate area
to a food-growing patch,
and even make it a focal
point of your garden (see
our family-friendly vegie
garden on page 104).
But if not, there’s a whole
range of vegetables and
herbs that are well-suited
to container growing, or
can be integrated into an
ornamental garden by
including things like
borders of lettuce or
parsley. With the warm
months ahead providing
the best conditions for an
excellent bounty, now is
the time to begin.100B
rimming with
vitamins,
freshly picked
homegrown vegies
always seem to taste
better than store-bought
(and not just because of
the money you’re saving).
Being able to grab a
sun-warmed tomato or
handful of leaves to pop
straight into a salad bowl
is wonderfully rewarding
and worth the effort!▲