Get digging for rewards in spades

Jackie French
Updated July 2 2021 - 3:48am, first published August 23 2020 - 12:00am
A warning though to vegie virgins: keep it simple the first time. Picture: Shutterstock
A warning though to vegie virgins: keep it simple the first time. Picture: Shutterstock

Okay, anyone who wants to have a vegetable garden this summer: grab your garden forks. This is the time to dig, so you can plant as soon as frosts seem to be over. (If you have industriously mulched and weeded your productive vegie garden through winter, you'll only need to pull out the elderly veg and plant with little or no digging required. Sadly, like most gardeners, I failed my winter garden tending regime.)

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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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