Welcome to the Gardner's World magazine's Sewalong series, the podcast that inspires you to grow more from seed.

Thank you. Hello, I'm Miranda, and I'm the senior content creator for the BBC Gardner's World magazine and a trained horticulturalist.

I'm going to be sharing with you why I love growing pack choy. An experienced gardener will often advise you to only grow the veg you really want to eat.

And this is sage advice, no herb pun intended.

I have a sunny border in my back garden that I've made wider to accommodate for veg growing

with a cute little white

picket fence mostly to keep my dog and chickens off at all.

I love to imagine this plot filling up with many various shapes and colours each year.

I see trees of Brussels sprouts growing towards the sky.

cauliflower's fluffy, cabbage is green, strawberries sweeter. Oh, you get the sky. Collyflowers fluffy, cabbage is green, strawberry's sweeter.

Oh, you get the idea.

But while everything seems so possible and very plausible

as I stand in front of the vast walls of gorgeous seed packets in the shops,

calling out to me like jars of toffies and sherbts in an old-fashioned sweet shop. When it actually

comes to growing, it can be far too ambitious to try and grow every little green thing mentioned

in the Peter Rabbit books. Which brings us back to the advice of growing only what you'll actually

eat. If you're short and spaced time or joggle lots of demands, doing less is usually more.

It's horrid to watch everything suddenly bolt in summer.

Every year I promise myself I'll reign in my ambition and care more for less.

So how do you choose which veg to grow?

Let's take it as a given you know which herbs will benefit your savory meals, teas and desserts.

Herbs are always worth growing and make pretty much everything taste better.

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