I was bitten by the vegetable growing bug soon after we moved into our new house and garden in Marden. Thrilled to harvest a big crop of onions, it did occur to me soon afterwards that I could have bought them very cheaply at the supermarket without the bother and expense of planting, tending, harvesting and storing. However, that simply prompted me to move on to other crops which are more expensive to buy. Since then my veg garden has been an ongoing project. I tell myself that I’m doing my bit for sustainability, but really it is because I enjoy vegging out in the fresh air and soil.

So I decided to blog about it here, in the hopes that some of you other keen veg and fruit gardeners will join in.

Admittedly January is not the ideal time to start. All the Christmas festivities have meant that I haven’t really been out there and Storm Henk is now raging. It is very wet and windy and I’m worrying that the purple sprouting broccoli will be blown over. Worst still, I haven’t sown my over-wintering broad beans, ‘Aguadulce’ - and now I have just picked up the packet of seeds to see how to spell Aguadulce, and in doing so knocked over an open packet of peas and have spilled them over the floor! These are Pea ‘Meteor’ which also should have been sown a couple of months ago.