Make #January the funnest month for planning your #growing year - have you decided what to grow? Let us know … Did you

•See what your household likes to eat?
•Find out what your neighbours are growing?
•Seek out available space at home or in your neighbourhood?
•Plan a community garden with mates?
•Make new friends in the process?
•Start your own local gardening club?

FRONT AND BACK GARDENS
Lots of people who grow veggies probably use their back garden but what about all of that available space in the front? A lawn can look lovely but wouldn’t lots of fruits and vegetables look even better? If you only have a small space in the front of your house you can utilize containers for growing veggies.

URBAN SPACES
If you have no outdoor space at all to grow veggies, that’s not the end of the matter. It’s almost guaranteed that there is some unused space within your community that would make the ideal spot for a veggie patch and for bringing people together, it’s just a case of finding the area and talking to the right people.

Once you’ve decided what to grow, the next step is where are you going to grow it. If you’re fortunate, you’ll have a lovely garden with space to plant everything but sometimes you might need to get a bit creative and think outside the box. SMALL SPACES
⁃ do you think your garden is too small for a veg patch? It is surprising how much you can grow in a 4 foot square area. Check out the square foot gardening page for lots of information. squarefootgardening.org

Christmas leftover recipe

Turkey stew with dumplings Stew
1/2 tbs olive oil
20g butter
2 onions, sliced
300g leftover turkey
100g leftover pigs in blankets
100g leftover cooked veg
3 garlic cloves, sliced
1 tbs plain flour
1 tsp grain mustard
1 tsp smoked paprika
200 ml red wine
400g tin toms
5 thyme sprigs
1 red chilli halved