50 Tips for growing your own food: Fabulous fruit & vegetables

Growing your own vegetables and fruit is incredibly satisfying. Home grown food is usually healthier than that bought in a shop. Many of the water soluble vitamins in fruit and vegetables are lost within a short time after the food is harvested and this is avoided when food is picked immediately prior to eating.

Food grown at home does not have to have a long shelf life and so varieties bred for flavour can be grown, also you can try growing unusual fruits and vegetables.

50 Tips for Growing Your Own Fabulous Fruit and Vegetables is a goldmine of valuable ideas to help you go some way towards self-sufficiency.

Written by Judith Williams, a dedicated gardener and enemy of garden pests. Judith lives a rural life on a smallholding in mid-Wales growing most of the fresh food for her own family and also some for sale in the local Country Market.