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Growing your own food and foraging can help tackle your ballooning grocery bill. Here's how to start (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 year ago by Thornburywitch@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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For all you urban gardeners out there. Article is Sydney based cos abc, but still valid. Good balance of ALL the factors involved including the downsides.

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[–] mspong@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

In my experience root crops take more effort and are hard to get to a size equivalent to store bought. It's probably my techniques but I am a lazy gardener. While silver beet grows better for me than commercial crop.

With tomatoes I find bigger varieties are tasty targets for birds and other pests while smaller ones escape their notice and also crop over a longer period. Plus they self seed better and seem more resistant to pests. Speaking of which I once bought tomato seedlings from Bunnings but they had purple leaf curl virus which recurred the next year so I had to go without for some years to fix that. Never again.