Why Everyone Should Be Growing Their Own Vegetables

The quiet magic of planting something and watching it grow.

Dear my lovely reader,

As I edited last weeks vlog it made me realise how much JOY our vegetable garden has brought to us. Morning walk throughs to check on the growth of our vegetables, evening conversations turn to what we are growing and how we can improve it, endless hours pottering and just simply sitting and enjoying. Cooking new recipes, tasting and harvesting. Just pure joy.

In an age of convenience, where anything can be delivered at the tap of a screen, there’s something beautifully grounding and slow about growing your own food.

Whether it's a full raised bed or a single pot of cherry tomatoes on a windowsill, growing vegetables is a gentle reminder that good things take time. That the most nourishing moments in life often come from dirt under your nails, sun on your back, and the quiet satisfaction of tending to keep something alive.

Last summer we started to dabble with growing things to eat rather than just to look at. Beginning with a galvanised trough filled with compost and packed full to the brim with bush variety tomatoes, garlic, an abundance of lettuce and every herb you can imagine. We became, I suppose you could say, addicted.

Now this is where the journey to growing what we eat intensified. In a redundant part of the garden (coincidentally perfect for vegetables with the sheltered and full sun benefits) we built a vegetable garden.

Filled with 4 raised beds, a potting table, a three bay compost bin, water butt system, pots for fruit a dahlia flower bed and a border of hydrangeas engulfing the dining area. Something that we started to plan in January and had finished ready to plant in April has become my absolute sanctuary.

So these are the reason why I think everyone should grow their own vegetables.