Reddit reviews The New Vegetable & Herb Expert

If you want inspiration, have a wander round Kew Gardens. At one time they had student vegetable gardens there too - don't know about now, but it's a wonderful garden. Most supermarkets will have seeds sold for UK conditions, as of course will garden centres, and seed catalogs are a good source of inspiration. I have a nice one from http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/Home/Orders-Requests/Catalogue-Request.html#.VvLaK6DLfGU The classic book on UK vegetable gardening is by Hessayon, with titles some variation on "The Vegetable Expert":

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-New-Vegetable-Herb-Expert/dp/0903505754?ie=UTF8&keywords=hessayon%20vegetable%20expert&qid=1458756231&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

I see second hand copies of the previous version going cheap at http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Vegetable-Expert-books/dp/0903505207?ie=UTF8&keywords=hessayon%20vegetable%20expert&qid=1458756231&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2

Such large numbers of this were sold that you have a good chance of repeating what I did a week or too ago - check out the local charity shops and pick up a second hand copy for £2.

Last year I was very pleased with Annual Rocket. A few years before that I had a lot of Kale coming along which got covered in caterpillars, but I am trying that again this year since I saw a story in this newsgroup of it recovering from such infestations. I have grown tomatoes outdoors but that can be chancy even with a variety bred for the purpose. Radish is famously easy, unless you get enough heat to make it go to seed, and even then you could eat the tops as greens.

Welcome to the UK - for further enthusiasm about its climate etc. see http://www.poeticexpressions.co.uk/POEMS/This%20royal%20throne%20of%20kings.htm (..This other Eden, demi-paradise,..)