Sally Nex has been feeding her family with home-grown fruit, vegetables and preserves for the last 20 years or so, as well as eggs from a motley gaggle of hens and more recently, lamb from her small flock of rare-breed sheep.In 2006 she left 15 years as a journalist on BBC radio, television and World Service to devote her time to horticulture. She is qualified in horticulture to RHS Level 3, and has a planting design diploma from Capel Manor College. Sally now writes, teaches and gives talks about veg growing and self-sufficiency all over the country and is a regular writer and columnist for BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, the RHS journal The Garden, Grow Your Own, and The Guardian.

These pages are rich in personal experience and enthusiasm

• Introduction PART ONE: Sowing the seedChapter 1: Grow the easy hits Chapter 2: Start a three-pot veg plot Chapter 3: Make a herb garden Chapter 4: Plant a mini orchard Chapter 5: Eat with the seasons Chapter 6: The good growing guide PART TWO: Digging deeperChapter 7: Find more space Chapter 8: Save your own seed Chapter 9: Preserve your produce Chapter 10: Grow your own drinks Chapter 11: The backyard medicine cabinet Chapter 12: The home-grown garden shed Chapter 13: Supply your own eggs and meat Resources Index

Sally Nex has been feeding her family with home-grown fruit, vegetables and preserves for the last 20 years or so, as well as eggs from a motley gaggle of hens and more recently, lamb from her small flock of rare-breed sheep.In 2006 she left 15 years as a journalist on BBC radio, television and World Service to devote her time to horticulture. She is qualified in horticulture to RHS Level 3, and has a planting design diploma from Capel Manor College. Sally now writes, teaches and gives talks about veg growing and self-sufficiency all over the country and is a regular writer and columnist for BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, the RHS journal The Garden, Grow Your Own, and The Guardian.

These pages are rich in personal experience and enthusiasm

• Introduction PART ONE: Sowing the seedChapter 1: Grow the easy hits Chapter 2: Start a three-pot veg plot Chapter 3: Make a herb garden Chapter 4: Plant a mini orchard Chapter 5: Eat with the seasons Chapter 6: The good growing guide PART TWO: Digging deeperChapter 7: Find more space Chapter 8: Save your own seed Chapter 9: Preserve your produce Chapter 10: Grow your own drinks Chapter 11: The backyard medicine cabinet Chapter 12: The home-grown garden shed Chapter 13: Supply your own eggs and meat Resources Index