I buy my vegetable plants from Jill Vaughan at Delfland Nurseries (01354 740553). She sends me a chatty email newsletter every month, reminding me what I should be planting, suggesting new varieties, offering tips on maintaining these tiny plantlets, even adding recipes from her daughter Ele, who is growing vegetables herself in pots for the first time. I order online, and then my selection appears, courtesy of the postman, and gets planted, all within a few days. Of course, I pop in a few salad varieties from seed in rows in my tiny vegetable plot, especially in springtime, but I find this system gives the best results, keeping me in all things green and healthy for most of the year.