Become a green thumb in no time with these great growing guides developed by Robina for the Victory Community Gardens mentoring project.
If you don’t have the space or the tools, there are community gardens all over the region where you are welcome to go and put in your own crop.
Golden Bay
Golden Bay Community Organic Gardens
Cara Cottle
gbcommunitygardens@gmail.com
Nelson
Victory Community Gardens
Jocelyn Winters
vchinfo@victory.school.nz
Waimarama Community Gardens
Susan Ledingham
548 4575
waimarama@actrix.co.nz
Apple Lane Community Garden
Jane Worthington – House 44
547 6055
house44@xtra.co.nz
Nelson Environment Centre Garden
Nick Kiddey
545 9176
nickkiddey@nec.org.nz
Blenheim
Marlborough Community Gardens
Tina Fortune
manager@mfm.co.nz
or to find out more about it, go to their blogspot
Don’t know your lettuce from your rocket? There are also gardening mentoring programmes across the region where you can get you very own tutor to help bring out your green thumb.
Victory Community Gardens
Jocelyn Winters
vchinfo@victory.school.nz
Meet other people who dig gardening by joining a club. To find a club near you go to Found
All the essential information you need to grow fruit and nuts in your backyard in the top of the south.
www.growing-fruit-and-nuts.nec.org.nz