Now Available on Amazon: Hands In The Dirt - Notes From a Vegetable Garden - How To Grow Your Own Food

 Hands In The Dirt — Notes From A Vegetable Garden, publication date, 2026.

Gardening and growing food, like writing, is a passion of mine, so I put the two together. I turned my gardening journal, the notes I made as the 2025 growing season progressed, into a book.

Hands In The Dirt — Notes From a Vegetable Garden, is the end result.

For those who enjoy gardening and growing their own food, Hands In The Dirt offers insights and practical tips that can enhance your gardening journey and help produce a fruitful harvest.

Here’s the introduction.

Hands In The Dirt is about a vegetable garden, but it is about more than just growing food. It plots my progress through the gardening year, 2025. The planning stage, the Great British weather, learning from mistakes, and slowly building confidence in what the garden can provide.

It journals my attempt to be as self-sufficient for as long as possible, as season by season, the garden reveals its lessons.

Along the way, the small details that define a garden, and the patience needed from slow growth are revealed. From early planning, seed sowing, spring optimism, summer maintenance, autumn harvests, and winter reflection, it records the practical realities of working toward greater self-sufficiency.

Rather than offering rigid instruction, Hands In The Dirt, tells a story of food growing as it actually happens. There are hints and tips, but it is also about observation and persistence. As the year passes, it captures the rhythm of tending crops, giving notes on what worked, and what didn’t.

In the garden, there is always something new to learn.

So, whether you garden a large plot or a few containers, the ups and downs of gardening life will be familiar. Written for all levels of gardening experience, Hands In The Dirt is a reminder that gardening success is built slowly, one season and one lesson at a time.

Currently available as an e-book to buy, it can be downloaded from Amazon. 

But now you don’t need a Kindle to read it. It is also available for download as an EPUB or PDF.

It is also free to read for members of Kindle Unlimited.

Amazon link here: Hands In The Dirt

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