Actress NICOLE KIDMAN isn’t the green-fingered goddess she once thought she was after a terrible 2009 harvest.

The Oscar winner was more than impressed with her 2008 efforts and really thought she was on her way to becoming a master gardener - but now she fears her previous successes were “beginner’s luck”.

Playing down her fruit and vegetable-growing prowess, Kidman told fellow gardening fan Oprah Winfrey, “My garden didn’t flourish this time round… I had massive vegetables but this time the corn was not good.”

Kidman opened up about her lack of gardening know-how while promoting new movie Nine on Oprah on Wednesday (18Nov09).