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The Garden of Edible Delights
Saturday 13 March 2010, 1.31 PM
By The Team | Posted in Events
Mention the word ‘Digger’ around any workplace kitchenette in the city and chances are one’s ears will prick, green thumbs will emerge from shirt sleeves and lists of recently planted heirloom seeds, lemonade trees and ornamental edibles will be forthcoming. Gardening is the new ‘black’ and the hip are growing their own greens.
Diggers, a club for subversive gardeners, have now taken over the City Square, transforming concrete and aggregate into an edible garden showcasing the bounty of edibles that can be grown in tiny spaces.
Touch, smell and taste your way through the garden as you wander through the snakebean and Malabar spinach entwined arches, past giant sunflowers and tubs of rhubarb, corn, pumpkin and fragrant herbs.
Looking for ways to bring down your personal greenhouse gas emissions? If what we eat represents a third of them (through agricultural resource use and food miles), you’ve just found your way to do the planet a favour and provide yourself with some added organic flavour.
Get the inspiration you need to transform your balcony, terrace or window-sill into an ornamental, sensory garden and sustainable, flourishing food bowl. Potted herbs, lettuce and spinach require just a little love and light to grow on a window-sill.
Balconies can be framed by pot-perfect plants including hardy olives, dwarf avocado, pomegranate and espaliered citrus trees, fragrant and flowering rosemary and lavender, and hanging baskets of strawberries and tomatoes.
Along with fragrant and flowering home-grown herbs to spice up your meals, edible flowers, such as nasturtiums and pansies, can be used to garnish salads while your candied violets and gardenia will complete your ‘so city, so chic’ cupcakes.
Metlink’s Edible Garden will reclaim the City Square, corner Swanston and Collins Streets, from 12 to 19 March as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. Chefs Stephanie Alexander, Jude Blereau (Whole Food Cooking) and Matt Wilkinson (Circa) will demonstrate pan-work using home-grown Edible Garden produce on site.
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[...] The Garden of Edible Delights | that’s melbourne: I like your style – if you have anything as rural as a window-sill, you can create a sensory garden and a food-bowl. [...]
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[...] The Garden of Edible Delights | that’s melbourne: I like your style – if you have anything as rural as a window-sill, you can create a sensory garden and a food-bowl. [...]
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[...] The Garden of Edible Delights | that’s melbourne: I like your style – if you have anything as rural as a window-sill, you can create a sensory garden and a food-bowl. [...]
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