Benefits of growing food at home:
- Enjoy fresh and delicious herbs, tree ripened fruit and crisp vegetables.
- Grow fantastic varieties not usually found in shops.
- Love your chemical free home grown organic produce.
- Save time and money on shopping for food.
- Easier to eat a nutritious and healthy diet.
- Enable kids to learn first-hand where their food comes from.
- Growing and picking your own is a fun family activity.
- Take pride in sharing your bounty with family, friends and neighbours.
Welcome to Edible Christchurch
Growing food at home is a great way to eat healthy, save money and doesn’t have to take much time or space.
Things to consider when growing at home:
Plan your garden to suit your space, soil and sun
Select varieties you love to eat or that are special, not in supermarkets
Choose fruit varieties that provide a wide range of harvest times
Stage vegetable planting to allow you to continually harvest
Find ways to reduce time watering and weeding, use mulch or automatic irrigators
Recycling your green waste and food scraps by composting or worm farming
What to plant in Christchurch
Christchurch has a great climate for growing a wide variety of fruits, nuts, herbs and vegetables. The Food Resilience Network have developed guides on what plant varieties are particularly suited to our local growing conditions. These guides contain delicious, nutritious, disease resistant and hardy varieties suited to Canterbury. Many are heritage varieties that perform well and taste great.
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