The Edible Gardener, Alex Mitchell, is a gardening writer who specialises in organic kitchen gardening. She has been hopelessly obsessed with growing her
own fruit and vegetables ever since she tasted her first home-grown tomato on a tiny balcony in south London in her early 20s. Now 36, she lives in Greenwich, south London, with her partner and 18-month-old son.

Alex has a regular column in The Sunday Telegraph where she writes about transforming her small London garden into an edible Eden and learning, usually the hard way, how to stop pests eating everything, how to make fruit and vegetable plants look beautiful in a garden setting and, most
importantly, what to do with all that kale once you get it into the kitchen.

Her Edible Gardener blog keeps up with her daily travails and triumphs, and she is also available for consultancy work in the London area, advising growing-your-own novices on the best way to get
started.