Table 7.

Constraints that households experienced when growing vegetables, for those households who grow vegetables at home (n = 100)

Problems with gardens	%	Vegetables planted	%
Animals destroying the garden	59	Pumpkin	81
Plant diseases	49	Chilli	48
Insects	48	Spinach	40
Lack of fencing	43	Legumes	25
Lack of knowledge	35	Onions	20
Lack of money to buy supplies	29	Carrots	15
Lack of seeds	27	Butternut	11
Lack of pesticides	19	Cabbage	11
Lack of garden tools	13	Beetroot	7
Lack of fertilisers	13
Shortage of water	10	Confidence on growing vegetables
Lack of irrigation equipment	9	Confident	21
Lack of time	3	Needs a bit of advice	34
Nobody to help in the garden	1	Needs a lot of advice	45
No problems	18

Households with a vegetables garden, n = 100 (25% of total sample). Values are expressed as a percentage of the number of households who grow vegetables at home.