Hi Everyone,

If I can add my two cents’ worth to the great garden debate, let me first record some appreciations:

To Donald and Miriam, in particular, for their planning and labour in creating the existing vegetable plots. To Marianne for providing truckloads of compost and bark, in addition to that bought by Ucol, which our cheerful collective efforts are seeing dispersed around the place. To the providers of plants and seeds that have already gone in the ground, making the site look increasingly attractive. And to everyone else who has had input into the process of establishing the gardens, whether through thinking about the best basis for determining land use, supplying the hardware to hold the vege plots together or declaring their love of the lawn.

Which brings me to the point: although I have lingering affection for a grassy expanse that I helped create (I feel pain every time a truck tyre runs over it), I would be thrilled to see as much lawn as it took be turned into vege patches for everyone who wanted one.

Anthony