Why You Might want to Grow Edible Stuff

• Food stuff is top of the list in Mazlow’s hierarchy of need.
• ‘Growing your own’ to feed the family has been a priority for centuries.
• Farmers, market gardeners and smallholders all contribute edible stuff as do allotment holders and the majority of gardeners.
• Windowsills, greenhouses, conservatories and sunny sheltered spots can be used to grow tomatoes and salad crops for example.
• Herbs add taste to many dishes  and  basil, mint, parsley, rosemary and chillies,  are all stuff you can grow quite easily.
• Stuff called Curcurbits such as courgettes, squash, pumpkins and cucumbers are comparatively easy to grow with a bit of shelter and warmth.
• Tasty specialties are now more commonplace but Pineapples were grown in special stove houses in the 17th and 18th centuries.

What Other Stuff You Might want to Grow

• Man can’t live by bread alone so aesthetic stuff needs to be grown to feed the inner man.
•  Flowers and decorative plants come in all shapes and sizes. Cacti, Holly, Ivy and poinsettia are seasonal stuff you can try.
• Stuff for indoors includes a range of bulbs and windowsill plants. Old Aspidistra and other evergreen leaved plants have a reputation of cleaning the air. A reputation probably earned when we all had coal fires.
• Growing stuff in a formal manner from a large landscape to a small Knot garden can be time consuming but rewarding.
• Organic and environmentally friendly grown stuff has its own reward.
• Forestry, heath and heather, parks and pleasure grounds all serve a visual or emotional purpose.

How to Grow Stuff

You will have guessed it – read the book!