Where to Start

Identify your piece of ground. Think about what veg and fruit your family eats as this is the best place to start your plans.  A good book is a boon and I like Joy Larkcom's Veg growers handbook which is available from your library. It's packed with detail but is easy to read and understand

John who runs this site has a book on veg growing month by month, so that's another one for you to read. It may be available in the library too

There is lots of advice on here too if you care to read the threads in Growing 

Make a list of the types of vegetables you want to grow and identify when they need to be sown / planted out. As per the previous recommendations read up about them in books, magazines or on the internet. Crop rotation is an important aspect to understand in order to maintain the soil in a healthy condition and disease free. Once you get a good understanding you can design your plot accordingly. Its too late for growing much this season so I would concentrate on preparing your plot for next spring. I would advise not to try and do too much at once and when it comes time don't sow anything to early.

Post any questions on here and the experts will provide the answers I am sure.

Great words of wisdom Debsie, couldn't agree more. Now putting it into practise is a different thing .

I want to start growing my own veggies. Where do I start??

How big an area do you have available? That will govern how much you can grow.

What's there at present?  Prepared soil / flowerbed? Lawn/Grass? Brambles :blink:?

I recommend that you grow what you particularly like to eat - experiment later (if you start of growing something that is a disappointment, and you don't like it very much anyway, that won't help your enthusiasm much!)

Also worth considering "value per unit area". Value is both Taste and Money. Runner Beans grow upwards, don't take much space and are expensive in the shops.  Main crop spuds take up a huge area and are cheap as chips (sorry!) in the shops.

Some vegetables, like Sweet Corn, have a flavour when home grown that you just can't get from the shop (the sugar starts turning to starch very quickly, so the supermarkets can't compete even if they wanted to ...)

Have you got / do you want a greenhouse? Nothing to beat the gorgeous aroma of the ripening Melons when you open the greenhouse door first thing in the morning this time of year

we found that the dr hessayan book a great help ,

pick them up at whsmiths , about £5-00