Garden Vegetable | Time To Shine For Housing ACT Tenant Gardeners
ACT Minister for Community Services Joy Burch has called on Canberra’s public housing tenants to show off their green thumbs and enter this year’s annual Housing ACT spring gardening competition.
“Canberra is blessed with some wonderful gardens and many of those are to be found at the homes of public housing tenants,” Ms Burch said.
The annual competition is now open to all Housing ACT tenants and entries are being invited in seven categories: large garden; small garden; courtyard garden; environmentally-friendly garden; speciality garden; vegetable garden and rose garden.
First prize in each category will receive a $100 gift voucher, second prize a $70 gift voucher and third prize a $50 gift voucher. The overall winner will also be awarded a $200 gift voucher.
Ms Burch said tenants were being encouraged to showcase anything from flower and vegetable gardens in backyards or courtyards, to balcony and open space gardens in multi-unit complexes.
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