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Category: Ideas

INFO SHEET: Thinking about safety

A guide to safety in the community garden... keeping gardening safe for all...

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INFO SHEET: Creative composting

Composting turns our kitchen and garden wastes into plant food — almost 50 percent of waste produced in the home

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INFO SHEET: Managing garden pests

Integrated Pest Management — known as IPM — is the smart approach to managing garden pests.

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Useful plants

As community gardeners we make biodiverse gardens combining food, exotic and native plants...

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The uses of cardamom

Cardamom is a tropical plant whose centre of diversity, the region of its natural occurrence, is India.

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Bananas

If your community garden is in a warm climate with plenty of rain, a compact clump of bananas will provide

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Purslane

Some call it a weed. Those in the know call it food. Purslane is a low-maintenance plant that can cope

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French sorrel

French sorrel is one of those perennial plants that yield something edible through the year. It's worth having a sizeable

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Jerusalem artichoke

Root crops like Jerusalem artichoke are a staple food that we can grow in our community garden...

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Black sapote — chocolate pudding fruit

It is soft, black and gooey. It looks past its prime. It is all these things and it is delicious...

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