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 has been a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph detailing her experiences of turning her garden into an edible Eden.
Alex also contributes to various magazines and newspapers on the subject of gardens and lifestyle, with a particular interest in how to get the most out of small, urban spaces. She has written for Sainsbury’s magazine, House and Garden and Easyjet Traveller, worked as an editor and writer for The Express and The Sunday Telegraph, and written for The Independent and Metro newspapers and New Woman magazine. Alex has also taken garden designer Andy Sturgeon around her garden on TV while seven months pregnant and the size of a small gazebo and given a talk on potatoes during which only one man fell asleep.
Alex’s first book The Girl’s Guide to Growing Your Own (New Holland) is for people with busy lives who want to grow fruit and vegetables, however small their plot, and have fun along the way. Her second book The Edible Balcony (Kyle Cathie) shows how anyone can grow delicious fresh fruit and vegetables, even if they live several storeys up.
