Jackie French: How to grow mint

Jackie French
Updated October 13 2019 - 2:30pm, first published October 2 2014 - 5:11pm

We only require two things from "our" wombats. The first is that they appear regularly so visitors can say, "Aren't they sweet?". The second is that they eat the local native ground covers, grass, and the soft parts of reeds or sedges, as well as occasional carrots, parsnips, celery or parsley roots, and do not change their dietary

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Jackie French

Jackie French

Canberra Times columnist

Jackie French is an Australian author, historian, ecologist and honourary wombat (part time), 2014-2015 Australian Children' Laureate and 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. She also writes a gardening column for The Canberra Times.

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