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Welcome to my Dig In blog!

Sara Cox | 10:11 UK time, Monday, 20 April 2009

听Hello then, welcome to my first Dig In blog. It's Friday night and I'm writing this sipping champagne in a hot-tub with the Sugababes at a wild showbiz party. Ok, not really. It IS Friday night, but I'm actually sitting in my lounge looking out over my drizzly back garden. It's at this point I'd ideally tell you all the names of the various plants, trees and bushes听I can see but听I can't, as听I don't know.

What听I know about horticulture you could write on the bottom of a slug. There's definitely a long lawn, a weeping willow, a massive children's climbing frame and a kind of no-man's land at the end that's shaded and dank, perfect for my basset hound Snoop to snuffle round.

It's amongst all this that Toby from Gardeners' World will hopefully help me to create my own vegetable patch. He arrives on Monday and I'll let you know how we get on.

I'm not even sure what we'll be planting, if the soil is any good for growing and how big the patch will be. I'm massively excited about nurturing my very own food from seed to plate and getting the kids involved, but I'm worried too; we get loads of foxes round here, do they dig up veg?! How will we keep the dog off the patch? Will听I prove my sniggering doubting friends and family right by failing to grow a single carrot?

Best of luck if you're about to dig in for the first time too. Keep in touch through the blog, would love to hear your stories, especially if you're as clueless as听I am.

Any tips would obviously be gratefully received,听I certainly need all the help听I can get!

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