Common ground: 'I've discovered my garden has been built up by the love and labour of renters'

Hours tending to vegetables and weeds has become a way of easing anxiety and thinking of myself as part of something bigger

As a renter, I’d always felt too impermanent to cultivate a garden. Recently I moved into a house that already has one, something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.

Sometimes, to calm myself, I read Brenda Little’s Companion Planting in Australia, cover to cover. Originally published in 1984, it is an alphabetised guide to which plants like to be planted with which.

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