Get gardening for a vegetable patch!

Food lovers should get their tools out of the garden shed and get digging if they want to create a mini-vegetable patch that will help feed the family all throughout the year.

That is according to Sarah Raven, who wrote for the Telegraph that a few hours of care each Saturday morning should be enough to have a small vegetable patch producing a bounteous harvest.

In fact, the gardening expert expressed hopes that it will provide her household with two or three meals a week from May to winter.

Ms Raven has planted rhubarb, garlic chives, flat-leaf parsley, Swiss chard, Red Russian kale, peas and courgettes in her vegetable beds.

"One of the general principles behind my choice of plants is that tall climbers make more efficient use of space than dwarf or bush varieties," she wrote.

"A tall-growing climbing plant grows slowly upwards – more growth, more flowers, more fruit over many weeks and months."

Meanwhile, the BBC's Colin Evans recently highlighted garden sheds as a great place to lay early seed potatoes while they are sprouting.

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