Kitty’s top 10 tips for 2013

A NEW year has begun, a new growing season is imminent and now is the perfect time for planning your vegetable garden.

If you are like most people, you will have started 2013 with a profusion of positive resolutions on ways to become healthier, exercise more and forsake bad habits. Why not take the same approach for your garden and make some new year gardening resolutions, which incidentally will help your new fitness and health regime?

1. Turn a piece of lawn into a garden: Lawns may look good, but in reality they are unproductive, require a lot of care, and are environmentally unfriendly. Lawn care can become an obsession and consume lots of valuable time and fossil fuels to keep them looking good.