It's time to Dig This!

Make your own container to grow fresh veg, says Peter

- Peter Seabrook

WHAT has been around comes around, they say, and if I have any claim to fame it is the 10ft x 12ft vegetable plot I created on a TV series called Dig This! This was made for the BBC’s Pebble Mill at One lunchtime programme back in the mid-1970s.

Salad and vegetable prices rocketed following the hot summer of 1976, and the popularity of The Good Life TV programme inspired many people to grow their own. Now we see the return of growing our own, and little has changed from a cultivation point of view.

The 10x12 plot was in rows, and subsequently we looked at yard square Chequerboard Gardening, which may be more appropriate for today’s modern housing and tiny gardens. Where there is no garden, our more recent plans for the Palatable (Pallet-able!) Garden for the now-cancelled BBC Gardeners’ World Live is another option.