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Grow Your Own
Why bother growing your own fruit and vegetables when you can just pop down to the super market and there they all are?
Well not quite, how many varieties of tomato do you think you will see? 6 maybe 7 or sweet peppers 2 or 3. Of course the farmers markets are a good source of different vegetables or if you are lucky enough to live near a market garden then that's another option. But despite these choices the grower will only produce what sells. If you have a vegetable patch or an allotment you don't have those constraints, you can grow what you like to eat. In my seed catalogue there are 89 types of tomato, 23 varieties of sweet pepper, 11 choices of carrot 12 of cabbage and the humble potato is represented by a staggering 111 varieties, if you can't find one you like in that lot then there's a problem.
 With good planning you can provide vegetables all year round with staggered sowing s and winter varieties of things. You can have quality veg when it is expensive in the shops, you can grow the unfashionable but delicious varieties you can't find in the shops. You have the choice whether you use pesticides or chemical based fertilizers, or model your allotment on the organic system the choice is yours.
The real beauty of keeping an allotment is that you decide when you harvest, your beans can be picked when they are at their most tender, cauliflowers with tight sweet heads and asparagus cooked just minutes after cutting. This is when the vitamins minerals and fibre is at its best and will do you the most good.
 If you are new to vegetable gardening then get an allotment contact your town or local council they will be able to help. You can learn so much from the other allotment holders, often the older ones have been gardening all their lives and have a real wealth of knowledge. Apart from growing your own quality fruit and veg, having contact with the earth is great for the soul, particularly if you work in a high tech click your finger must be there now industry and lets face it so many of us do. The exercise is good for you, if you are not used to digging take it easy at first, buy tools that suit your height. The camaraderie is also great fun, life on the allotments is a little society within a society.
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