“We had a reasonably good one already, but I didn't want to keep going in to town to buy more vegies,” she said.
Lauren lives on a cropping farm with husband Tony and their two young children: Harry, 2, and three-month-old Patrick.
“A bigger vegie garden was always on our to-do list anyway. But when the virus thing happened, we had the time, so we expanded,” she said.
Lauren ordered a supply of seedlings from Shepparton north's Billabong Garden Complex and was lucky enough to escape the big rush for vegie seedlings, which stripped garden outlet shelves across Victoria.
“They were kind enough to do free delivery,” she said.
The family now has a healthy supply of turnips, lettuce, snow peas, silverbeet, broccoli, strawberries, cauliflower, bok choy and kale.
“This will keep us going for ages. I've just popped in some more kale,” Lauren said.