So I built a garden initially designed at 1m x 1m, but due to the timber we bought to edge it, it’s a fair bit bigger.

I planted peas, sweet peas (not edible, but I love the smell), carrots, onions, rocket and now tomatoes and strawberries. Starting small is good, and seeds are wonderful cause you see them emerge! I have eaten the carrots (warning – put in the fridge straight away or they go limp), peas straight off the plant (outsides are as good as insides!) Rocket was good, although it’s nothing like what you buy. It also went to flower, so we wasted a lot of it :(

I’m thinking of expanding it, now that it’s almost spring, and I’d love to get fruit trees, but I’m a little more concerned, as I think these need special fertilisers, and can take a while to bear fruit… Smalls steps I think!