PEOPLE who want to try growing their own vegetables this year (2008) are being offered the chance to take home a selection of ‘ready to pick’ plants.

Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre is stocking a range of vegetable plants to cater for people who don’t have the time to sow seeds and nurture small plants, but would still like to have a go at ‘growing their own’

Jane Earthy, Seasonal Plant Supervisor at the garden centre, which is located at Monkton Heathfield between Taunton and Bridgwater in Somerset, said: “For those people with little spare time we’re stocking a selection of ‘ready to pick’ vegetables, such as aubergines and tomatoes, where most of the work has been done for you.

“Nothing beats the satisfaction and flavour of home-grown vegetables. You know precisely how they have been grown. They are fresh, seasonal and full of nutrients, and won’t have travelled half way around the world.”