The service of Vital Veggies

Whilst there's a lot of detail in this website, you could assume we do many things. In fact it's simple – we help people just like you, grow veggies at home in healthy veggie gardens. When soil has a balanced mineral profile, an active biological life, diverse plantings with crop rotations and cultural practices to match; gardens naturally become productive.

Simply, Vital Veggies provides the best Veggie Gardening service possible. We garden for you, as we garden for ourselves.

What we do…

With Soil and Installation

We make, test, amend and retest all soils before they are placed in your garden bed. This gives you a soil balanced in minerals, with the correct organic matter percentages, added rock dusts and bountiful soil biology.

As an optional Extra, Vital Veggies Visits gives you

Add micro-organisms to the soil regularly

Foliar spraying to feed plants cafe style

Use our own biodynamic compost which is added between plantings of which there are three or four a year

use of organic seeds and seedlings wherever possible

We watch over your garden regularly

Assist in weeding

What we ask of you…

You water the garden

Harvest the plants

Communicate in a timely way with us, what you want happening in your garden and if you have any problems

For you to be realistic with what we can achieve in the space we are gardening in and finally, accept how the weather has an impact on the results to be gained from your garden.

First and foremost we want your gardening experiences to be enjoyable, fun and a great pleasure whilst providing food for the family.

What we'll both do…

We'll both agree to work together and honor the simple agreement that details our respective tasks.

And we'll maintain regular communications so we are sure we both get the best out of the garden for you.

Vital Veggies Visits summary

At Vital Veggies we don't just deliver you some dirt and leave you to it.

Growing a productive garden takes knowledge and that's what we provide when you have us come and garden for you. The table below outlines what we do with each service.

Vital Veggies Care

Tasks	Who does this?		Care frequency	Care cost based on the area of your raised beds including GST
	Who does this?			5 metres surface area		10 metres surface area
	You	VV		Weekly	Fortnightly	Weekly	Fortnightly
a)Basic Service package	Opt in	%		$16.95	$29.95	$19.95	$34.9
Biodynamic compost initially and with each sucessional planting		%		Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
All organic fertilizers and soil amendments		%		Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
Weeding		%		Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
Organic Foliar Sprays		%		Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
Soil fungi - mycorrhiza		%		Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
Soil microbes		%		Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
b)Plants grown from Diggers seeds, organic where available - seedlings	Opt in			$3.50	$7.00	$6.60	$13.00
c)Transplanting - original, successional and accidental death	Opt in	%		$3.30	$6.60	$6.50	$12.95
d)Plant removal, shredding and composting	Opt in	%		$3.00	$6.00	$5.00	$11.00
Watering	You	X		No Cost	No Cost	No Cost	No Cost
Harvesting	You	X		No Cost	No Cost	No Cost	No Cost

Tasks	Care cost based on the area of your raised beds including GST
	15 metres surface area		20 metres surface area
	Weekly	Fortnightly	Weekly	Fortnightly
a)Basic Service package	$23.00	$39.50	$26.95	$44.50
Biodynamic compost initially and with each sucessional planting	Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
All organic fertilizers and soil amendments	Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
Weeding	Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
Organic Foliar Sprays	Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
Soil fungi - mycorrhiza	Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
Soil microbes	Covered	Covered	Covered	Covered
b)Plants grown from Diggers seeds, organic where available - seedlings	$9.50	$19.00	$12.95	$25.50
c)Transplanting - original, successional and accidental death	$9.50	$19.00	$12.80	$25.00
d)Plant removal, shredding and composting	$8.00	$16.50	$10.50	$22.00
Watering	No Cost	No Cost	No Cost	No Cost
Harvesting	No Cost	No Cost	No Cost	No Cost

Growing your own is better for you

Consider it - now in the western world, one percent of the population grows all of the food; this historically low number is considered a measure of how advanced and clever we are, but perversely, it poses a massive challenge should anything befall this group. Increasingly it is a question of food sovereignty, which is but one reason amongst all the other reasons why we should have a garden.

Gardening is good for you and Vital Veggies makes it so easy for you to start. The team at Vital Veggies can supply the raised bed, install and fill it and then you select how you want Vital Veggies to support you once the garden is in place.

It's this Vital Veggie Visits program which is detailed above, that really allows you to get your hands dirty and at the same time, to learn whilst doing. All the time the Vital Veggie Team is right behind you.

So here's our care program and there is a basic plan and then you can opt-in or at a later time out as it suits your needs. When you opt in, that offer is one that is for a fixed period of six months.

Please contact the Vital Veggies Team to know more about how we care for your veggie garden. Further details are here about how long you have to stay on a care package, how you can change and the benefits you get.

Concerns of food sovereignty are quite rightly, one of the major concerns we need to have around our globalized food supply. A consideration of food miles, extended supply chains and embedded carbon within our food, gives great credence to growing food in your own back yard; naturally, biologically and organically. With a veggie garden of the correct size in your back yard, all these concerns can be a thing of the past.