How did you get interested in growing your own food?
Growing our own produce has never been about being completely self-sufficient and ditching those fruit and veg trips to the supermarket. Don’t get me wrong, the ‘Good Life’ way of living would be an absolute dream, but realistically for us, our delicious home-grown goodies are an added bonus to our family meals.
The reason I decided to sign up for an allotment all stems from the wonderful memories I have from helping our grandad on his vegetable patch when I was a small child. He would tend to his immaculate vegetable garden from dawn until dusk, stopping only for a cup of tea and sandwich at lunchtime. Looking back more than 30 years later, I can still remember sidling up to him and asking: “Have you got any jobs grandad?” He would always give us something to do, be that watering, weeding, pulling up spent brassica stalks (which he had already sneakily loosened first to make it easier for me), picking peas or maybe shelling broad beans.
Little did my grandad know that he had ignited my passion for growing edibles there and then. I think about him every time I’m gardening on our plot and hope he would be proud of what I’ve achieved.
This story is from the August 2021 edition of Kitchen Garden.
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