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The Family Kitchen Garden is for anyone with an interest in gardening, food, beauty and eating well. It is especially intended for anyone with children who has not yet tried growing their own food and might be daunted at the idea of gardening with children. In our experience, children can do pretty well everything grown-ups can do. If you include the children in the growing, they will find it far more interesting to work and to eat the results. It is the canniest way we know of encouraging them to eat healthy food.

You can start small with kitchen gardening - just dig up a little corner, or get a few containers, sow some seeds and look forward to harvesting several kilos of produce. Even if your kitchen garden consists only of a few pots and troughs with tomatoes, runner beans, rainbow chard, herbs and lettuces, the results will be worth it.

The things you grow will not be perfectly uniform, like supermarket ones, but the vegetables will taste stronger and better; the flowers will be fresher; the herbs tangier and the fruit healthier because you and your children will have grown it yourselves.