Introduction

A major incentive for the home garderer such as yourselfs must be the far superior flavour and freshness of vegetables personaly selected and tended to on your very own door step. Understandbly the main concern of commercial growers the world over is to reliably provide produce that is capable of high yield's, a uniform shape and can travel vast distances and still be in a suitable condition for sale. Unfortunatly flavour is often a lesser concern. Thankfully the home grower need not be resticted by these requirements and the produce you grow can be choosen to personally meet your taste's.

Within this blog i will be discussing various topics and techniques that will give an understanding of how plants grow and how they respond to various conditions to help make the experience of tending to your very own vegetable plot, a more satisfactory one. These will include plot preperation, sowing, watering, pests and diseases and my favorite harvesting. YUM!!! And of course details on how to grow a wide selection of produce from aubergine to zucchini.

While in this blog i will be writing for growers who live in a cool temperate climate such as the north of England, Sowing can take place earlier in more mild and favorable locations such as the south of the United Kingdom. The section on cloches and cold frames will demonstrate how plants can be protected against adverse climatic conditions. First and foremost you must decide what produce you are wanting to grow and secondly where you are going to get your seeds from. One option is your local garden centre and an increasingly popular method is by ordering them from the internet. Companys such as seeddirect.co.uk is an option.