Alex Mitchell

Alex Mitchell is a writer and gardener who has grown her own fruit, salad, herbs and vegetables for ten years. She studied at the Chelsea Physic Garden and for the past five years her columns in the Sunday Telegraph have entertained readers with her experiences of turning her garden into an edible Eden.

Alex’s first book THE GIRL'S GUIDE TO GROWING YOUR OWN is a completely new kind of gardening book for women with busy lives who want to grow fruit and vegetables, however small their plot, and have fun along the way. THE GIRL'S GUIDE TO GROWING YOUR OWN is very much a gardening book but includes some simple and stylish recipes for fruit, vegetables, salads and herbs, such as Barefoot Breakfast Smoothie, Two-tomato salad with Italian and purple basil and Verbena tea. It was published by New Holland in 2009. Her second book THE EDIBLE BALCONY is an essential guide for both novice and experienced gardeners wanting to grow fresh produce in urban spaces and was published by Kyle Cathie in the Spring of 2011.
Columnist Alex Mitchell lives and gardens in Greenwich, south-east London, with her partner and two young sons.