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Welcome to this website!
Many people dream about living on a few hectares in the
country and growing their own food. Yet in reality the majority of us live
in an urban environment, over ninety percent of Australians do so and are
unlikely to ever to move to the country. This site has been set up to help and encourage
people grow at least some of their own food where they live and are always
likely to live, in the cities, suburbs and towns that dot our wonderful
planet.
It is not meant as a complete manual covering everything to do
with food production, nor do I claim to be an expert on gardening matters.
What I hope this site does is :
Provide some basic notes on how to grow
fruit & vegetables.
Give some hints and advice in areas where
I have developed techniques that I believe are not covered in other
vegetable growing books or websites.
Offer planting and garden design information that
is specific to the
Ballarat and
surrounding district climate.
Display our garden through images online to give
the viewers ideas as to what they can do in their own gardens.
Be a contact point for others who share my
interest in producing food in their own backyards.
So please enjoy this site! And if you have any
gardening hints, stories of successes or failures, or simply like what
you see on this website then please feel free to drop me a line. I would
love to hear from you!
Cheers,
John Ditchburn (Ditchy)
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