Hi Huw - we've been waiting to chat to you ever since watching your great videos on YouTube and receiving a copy of your book, The Vegetable Grower's Handbook. We'd love to know what got you into gardening.
Do you guys remember The Good Life on TV? That inspired my parents quite a lot – it got my parents into the dream – along with John Seymour’s book on self-sufficiency. Before they moved to where they are now, they had a terraced house with a front lawn which they ripped out and completely remade into a garden. Years later when they moved, the new owners put it back to lawn. Then one day they were redoing the kitchen and discovered that a photograph of how my parents had the garden had fallen behind a cupboard and they were so amazed by how nice the garden looked; they put it back again to how it was when my parents had it.
My parents wanted a smallholding and always wanted to have a family in Wales. My grandad is Welsh and there is a picture of me when I was two or three in a red onesie just looking at a raised bed and I had no idea how significant that would become.
I was so inspired by how you could plant a small seed and it would grow into something you could eat. I thought it was utter magic and was hooked.
In summer I couldn't wait for school to finish so I could go back and spend an evening in the garden with my dad.
You have an enormous amount of info on growing veg on your YouTube channel, but you are always experimenting - always challenging conventional wisdom and trying something new.
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SEPTEMBER SPECIALS
This month, with sweetcorn, figs and blackberries on the menu, Anna Cairns Pettigrew is not only serving up something sweet and something savoury, but all things scrumptious
FLAVOURSOME FRUIT AUTUMN RASPBERRIES
September - is it late summer or the start of autumn? David Patch ponders the question and says whatever the season, it's time to harvest autumn raspberries
SOW GREEN THIS AUTUMN
Covering the soil with a green manure in winter offers many benefits and this is a good time to sow hardy types, says KG editor Steve Ott
A HISTORICAL HAVEN OF FRUIT AND FLOWERS
KG's Martin Fish takes time out from his own plot to visit a walled garden in Lincolnshire which has been home to the same family for more than 400 years
RESTORING THE BALANCE
The phrase regenerative gardening is often heard in gardening circles, but what is it? Can it help you to grow better veg? Ecologist Becky Searle thinks so, and tells us why
WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld shares his expertise on using compost made from green bin collections with handy tips on getting the right consistency and quality
Celebrating Organic September!
In this special section we bring you four great features aimed at improving your crops and allowing nature to thrive
SEEING RED
Do your tomatoes have a habit of remaining stubbornly green? Or perhaps you're lucky to enjoy lots of lovely fruits - just all at once. Either way, Benedict Vanheems is here with some top tips to ripen and process the nation's favourite summer staple
NEW KIDS ON THE BROCCOLI!
Rob Smith is talking broccoli this month with a review of the different types available and suggestions for some exciting new varieties to try
A NEW kitchen garden
Martin Fish is getting down to plenty of picking and planting on the garden veg plot, while Jill is rustling up something pepper-licking good!
