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Steve encourages budding gardeners to grow their own
GROWING your own to eat your own is a trend that is catching on.
And courses designed to help people start their own vegetable patch are attracting more and more participants, according to Steve Goode of Rathkeale who has come up with his own twist on the latest recession- busting trend.
And from a man who has 40 years' experience of growing a huge range of fruit and vegetables, it is not an offer to be dismissed lightly. Steve is offering people a patch in his own, very large garden, and his also prepared to lend tools to people starting off and to give basic advice and all without charging a cent.
"I have too much garden now. I don't have time to cultivate all of it and since the family began to scatter. I don't need to grow as much so I have land that people can use," he told the Limerick Leader, explaining the reason behind his offer.
"This is land that has been cultivated although it needs a bit of weeding," he went on. No money will change hands, he said, but he expected that people would contribute something by way of a swap. "It could be sharing the things they grow, it could be small jobs such as cutting the grass or looking after the dog when I'm not here. It's about swapping really – but people need to make some contribution," said Steve.
The big advantage for anyone taking up Steve's offer is that helpful advice will only be a few drills away. Steve has successfully grown a wide range of different fruits, from apples, pears, plums, damsons, currants, raspberries and strawberries to figs and grapes. And he has also grown almost every vegetable recognisable to the Irish palette, either in the ground or in his polytunnel.
Tomatoes, peppers, avocados, aubergines. You name it. Steve has grown it, along with potatoes, garlic, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots and parsnips. "There is a lot of work involved," Steve warned those who may be full of good intentions.
"You have to commit yourself to doing the garden at least three times a week if it is to thrive." But he and his family know only too well that nothing really beats the fresh, out-of-the-soil taste of homegrown vegetables He added that, if people wanted to meet as a group to learn, he would be more than willing to give it a go. If you are interested, Steve can be contacted at 087-9972974.
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