How to grow a kitchen garden and a recipe for the salad leaves you harvest

When it comes to creating a kitchen garden, size does not matter, says Darina Allen 

You can grow a kitchen garden on your window sill very easily. 

My passion for encouraging virtually everyone I meet to grow some of their own food may seem baffling. Why bother? There’s never been a time in history when such a wide variety of foods is available.

Every shop and supermarket in the country is stacked to the ceiling with tantalising products, enticingly labelled with a delicious promise of flavour and health benefits – a seemingly endless supply of super processed foods to make our lives easier. But, we now know that this kind of food is, quite simply, killing us.