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Grow your own salad

Eating in true garden-to-table s—tyle.

Words Kahu de Beer

Walking to the garden to pick ingredients for a homemade salad is one of life’s simplest pleasures, especially when you’ve got a whole variety to choose from. Regardless of what kind of gardening skills (or lack thereof) you have, growing a salad garden is absolutely achievable.

When thinking of growing your garden, imagine the type of salads you’d like to dish up and wow your family and friends with. Do you want them to include herbs, beautifully coloured heirloom tomatoes, delicate edible flowers? Then plant what you know you’ll eat.

You can get the whole family involved in growing a salad garden too. You’ll be surprised how much more likely kids will be to eat veggies if they’ve grown them themselves or been a part of the process. You might even find them outside eating straight from the garden! It’s not just eating the produce that’s beneficial either – the experience of being outdoors, spending quality time together and getting their hands in the soil is maybe the best part. And it’s highly likely they’ll develop a life-long love of gardening (or at the very least for cherry tomatoes!).

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