Visit Tania 25 March 2018

On Sunday 25 March the Food Garden Group visited Tania's garden at West Hobart

No one should complain about good rains in March, but it was a pity that early drizzle on the morning of our food garden visit turned into steady rain just when our food garden visit was about to start.

However, thanks to the fact that Tania has a wonderful large studio room with French doors that open onto the garden, we could still see her great garden, and venture out at times when the downpour was not so heavy.

Tania lives in a densely-built area of West Hobart, but because the main part of her house was built around 1840, and other bits were added later in character with this, her garden has a very nice ‘cottage garden feel’.

The design of Tania’s garden showed us that when you give a small garden a good layout, retaining walls, nice paths and paving, and raised beds, you can make it productive and at the same time aesthetically pleasing. 

Here (photo below) Tania welcomed us and talked about her garden. While holding in her hands a line marker with string that her father used to use, she reminisced about how he made her interested in gardening at a young age.

From there on everyone had a great time, because when a group of us meet, a lively conversation about anything to do with food gardening simply starts, and, with a cuppa and something nice for morning tea in hand, conversations continue from there on unabated until it is time to go home. 

A well-provisioned morning tea table had something yummy for everyone. Thanks, people, for your contributions!

Thanks everyone too for your contributions to the produce table, and last but not least, many thanks to Tania for hosting this successful visit under less than perfect circumstances.

This text was previously published on the Food Garden Group blog. It was written by Max Bee.