There is so much pressure nowadays to look and be a certain way, and vegetable gardening canalsosuccumb to the weight of tradition, expectation and peer power. From how a garden is structured and managed, to the crops that are grown, there are many perceived ‘must-have’ varieties that one often feels obliged to grow. Yet we are all different, with varying growing conditions and preferences for what we like to eat from the veg plot. I’ve interviewed many gardeners over the years and so often I hear tales of guilt around gluts of unwanted produce that have gone uneaten.
With everything still so expensive to buy in the shops, the last thing we need to do is feel bad that we’ve grown too much of something and it is sitting there slowly rotting away on the ground. Or that our freezer is laden with carrots because we had to put them somewhere, yet we know that those orange horrors are very likely to come back and torment us in the middle of the
