The writer, cook and gardener Nigel Slater begins his regular column in Gardens Illustrated magazine this month <\/p>
We are delighted to welcome cook, writer and passionate gardener Nigel Slater<\/a> to the Gardens Illustrated<\/em> team as our new columnist – catch his first piece in our March 2024 issue, on sale tomorrow.<\/p> From March 2024, Nigel will write a column each issue about his year in the garden, beginning with the promise of spring, seed<\/a> sowing and his continual wonder at how he can grow things. <\/p> You can expect personal insights into what he enjoys in his small urban garden in London, which he regularly posts about on Instagram.<\/p> Here’s a sneak peek at March’s offering: ‘It is half a century since I ran up the path to my father\u2019s greenhouse to tell him that the seeds I had planted in my thin strip of garden were peeping through. I can no longer remember if it was the calendula, cosmos or candytuft (my pocket money obviously hadn\u2019t got me very far through the seed catalogue), but I still remember the excitement with which those shoots were greeted.’<\/p> Nigel has worked as an Observer <\/em>food columnist for 30 years and has written many award-winning books including Tender<\/em>, Kitchen Diaries<\/em> and The Christmas Chronicles<\/em>. His childhood memoir, Toast<\/em>, was adapted for radio, made into film and has also been adapted for the stage. <\/p> He was recently a guest on Gardens Illustrated<\/em>‘s podcast Talking Gardens, where he talked about his dream garden, the fact that he was lucky enough to have Dan Pearson <\/a>and Monty Don<\/a> design his garden, his love of Japanese design <\/a>and his wish for a soft serve ice-cream machine and fairies in his plot.<\/p>