About Alex
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 five 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 writes regular garden and lifestyle features for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
Alex also 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 written gardening features for Sainsbury’s magazine, House and Garden and Easyjet Traveller, worked as an editor and writer for The Express and The Sunday Telegraph, and written for The Independent and Metro newspapers and New Woman magazine.
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 her next book, The Edible Balcony, has just been published by Kyle Books. Alex also presents The Greenwich Podcast.
Contact me alex at theediblegardener.co.uk
See my Amazon page for more info on my books
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If you want to know yet more about Alex, click on these interviews below:
The US design and living blog Shelterpop featured an interview with me here
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…
March 2010′s The Guide magazine features an interview with me here in which my house sounds far nicer than it actually is
The Edible Balcony – Grow Fresh Produce in the Heart of the City by Me!
The Girl's Guide to Growing Your Own-Or How to Grow Fruit and Vegetables Without Getting Your Hands Too Dirty By Me!