Fruit and vegetables are the new flowers as more of us aspire to the Good Life and dig for our dinner. A combination of rising food prices, global food shortages and the guilt of food miles has seen an explosion in the numbers now growing their own, with women, and in particular young urban mothers, taking on allotments or converting back gardens into vegetable patches. Our aim is to provide help for those just starting out, and timely reminders for those who are already dab hands with veg.