Canny Kiwis give green thumbs-up to growing their own vegetables

Almost 60 per cent of New Zealanders say they have taken up vegetable gardening in the past 12 months.

A Herald-DigiPoll survey of 750 people found benefits in growing your own food during a tough economic year.

As the price of fruit and vegetables rose 12 per cent in the year to November in Statistics New Zealand figures, 57.6 per cent of people said they had started vegetable gardening.

Women were more likely to have taken it up, at 62.1 per cent, but the majority of men also answered that they had.

NZ Herald

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