My musings from Aalsmeer, the biggest flower auction in the world, in February’s Easyjet Traveller magazine 

It’s before seven in the morning and I’m standing on a metal catwalk looking down on what looks like an explosion in a paint shop.

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Latest reviews for The Girl’s Guide to Growing Your Own

Loving Tim Richardson’s description of The Girl’s Guide in The Daily Telegraph as ‘chick-veg-lit‘ Also charming one from my horti-guru Elspeth Thompson in The Sunday Telegraph in her Christmas 2009 books round-up, The Sunday Times in their best Christmas books list and another nice one from ‘the stylish gardening blog’ Fennel and Fern.

Why I wrote The Girl’s Guide to Growing Your Own, The Sunday Telegraph, November 2009

A 30-minute planting recipe for a spicy salad box for winter, The Sunday Telegraph, November 2009

Emma Townshend from The Independent on Sunday came round for lunch, to see the garden and to talk about The Girl’s Guide to Growing Your Own. This is what she wrote…

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Alex Mitchell in her garden

Alex Mitchell is a journalist, author and gardener who has been obsessed with growing things she can eat for about 10 years. Before this, she was obsessed with television. On balance, gardening is healthier. For three years, Alex wrote a column for The Sunday Telegraph about growing fruit and vegetables, first in a polytunnel in a muddy field, which often made her cry, and then in her little south London garden, which made her happy.

She contributes to various magazines and newspapers on the subject of gardens and lifestyle, with a particular interest in how to get the most out of small, urban spaces. She has worked as an editor and writer for The Express and The Sunday Telegraph, and  written for The Independent and Metro newspapers and New Woman, House and Garden,  Sainsbury’s and Easyjet Traveller magazines.

Alex’s writing and broadcasting career has been varied. She has sat next to Anne Diamond on the Esther Rantzen show, taken garden designer Andy Sturgeon around her garden on TV while seven months pregnant and the size of a small gazebo, given a talk on potatoes during which only one man fell asleep, been on a naked march in a flesh-coloured body stocking complete with merkin and and flown to Italy to write an article about bicycle seats for a magazine that then folded – but not before she got a free bicycle seat.

Her first book, The Girl’s Guide to Growing Your Own – Or How to Grow Fruit and Vegetables Without Getting Your Hands Too Dirty, was published by New Holland in October 2009 and she is currently working on her next book for publication by Kyle Cathie in spring 2011.

Contact me alex at theediblegardener.co.uk