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edible plants eaten raw or cooked.

When you plant your own vegetable garden it means you can experience far more varieties than your supermarket provides and really discover your taste buds. Gardening and eating what you harvest helps you look after your family's and your own health and wellbeing.

Home grown vegetables:

  • Are convenient, pick and cook within minutes
  • Can even be grown on a small balcony in pots, tubs and hanging baskets
  • Are better grown fast and picked young for great taste
  • But most of all they are yummy!

Recipe for Spicy Pumpkin Dip

Ingredients:

1 onion, finely chopped
8 garlic cloves, finely chopped
3-4 tbls extra virgin olive oil
1 butternut pumpkin, peeled and diced
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp paprika
½ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp curry powder
½ cup diced tomatoes
½ jalapeno chili, seeded and chopped
1 tsp salt
Pinch of sugar
2½ tbls unflavoured yogurt
2 tbls lemon juice
2 tbls chopped coriander

Instructions:
Saute onions and half the garlic in oil over med-high heat until onion is translucent. Add pumpkin, reduce heat, cover and cook for 10 minutes, or until half cooked.

Stir in cumin, paprika, ginger and curry. Cook until the spices are fragrant. Add tomatoes, chilli, salt and over medium heat until the liquid is evaporated and pumpkin tender. Add the yogurt in the last 2 minutes of cooking.

Mash into a coarse puree using a potato masher to a thick paste-like consistency.

Add the reserved garlic, then stir in lemon juice. Sprinkle with coriander. Serve hot.


Many vegetables can be successfully grown in pots. Water with recycled waste cooking water, or collected shower water.

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