How wonderful it is to have a veggie patch, even if it’s in pots on a balcony or a courtyard! Picking cherry tomatoes, lettuce and cucumber and eating them an hour later in a salad is so satisfying and they taste great. Today Peter helped me plant up some capsicum and tomato plants and I feel inspired. One of my pleasures is gardening. After my stroke I couldn’t garden for quite a while and felt frustrated and grumpy about it. When I could walk and stand safely, Peter made me a waist high garden using 5 large self-watering tubs from https://www.greensmartpots.com.au/ He put them up on old table frames and trestles he’d found. We filled them with good vegetable potting mix and I grew broccoli, cucumbers, Lebanese eggplants, tomatoes, lettuce, silverbeet, bok choy, spring onions, chillies and herbs. They were easy to maintain and water. You don’t have to buy a particular brand of raised bed, pots made from large empty cooking oil cans or fruit picking buckets are some DIY ideas, just make sure your pot is deep enough (30 cm minimum is good). You or your veggie garden friend could check out DIY ideas on Pinterest.com.au too. Earlier this year we moved from a house to a unit with only a small strip of garden bed, but we brought three Greensmart pots with us so we could still do some home growing. If you can get some help to set up your ‘patch’ the rest is easy. Go on, grow some food!