Virginia Murnane and her children Mabel, 8, and Ellis, 6, have spent lockdown planting and growing vegetables and herbs in their backyard.

"When the first lockdown happened, the world was going a bit crazy with everyone panic shopping at the supermarket," Miss Murnane said.

"So I decided we should do some panic gardening and grow our own veggies."

It was a successful project for the three green thumbs who now have so much excess produce, they're giving it away.

"Everything has just completely grown and we aren't getting through it," Miss Murnane said.

"We would usually have visitors coming through the door that we could give the excess produce to but for obvious reasons we can't.

"We decided we'd just give it away and the kids made up a sign and have put together bunches of produce and put them in a box for people passing by."

Miss Murnane said the first lot of produce was gone within an hour.

Ellis said he loved growing vegetables "out of the ground and giving them water".

He said he loved kale the most, especially "when my mum makes the kale chips".

Miss Murnane said the vegetable garden was "a really good lockdown project" that she hoped would "catch on" in other parts of the community.

"There's been some days where the kids are completely disengaged with school so the garden has been a really good place for them to get some fresh air, measure the plant growth and research different vegetables," she said.

"In a way it's like they are learning without them really knowing they were doing it.

"Now that we've got the ball rolling we're going to start looking at propagating things from seeds to see what else we can grow.

"It keeps the kids really excited."

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