I am a novice when it comes to planting and growing.

So your tips will be greatly appreciated!

The Vegan Organic Network is a terrific resource encouraging gardeners from the most humble windowsill grower through to the commercial farmer to produce cruelty free food. Please see the links section for contact details.

Home made compost will allow you to avoid use of commerical fertiliser which may well be based on animal manure, or blood or fish.

I'm lucky enough to have a garden that I can put a compost bin in. I get really excited about it! It's largely fed by kitchen waste, shredded prunings and grass cuttings. Its not yet been going long enough to reach maturity but is generating some heat. If you don't have a compost bin, you can either donate your green waste to friends or family that do, or save it up and take it to your local recyc facility. In Devizes that will be Hopton Park- see link section

The other side of vegan gardening is creating a habitat for creatures in order to nurture the local wildlife.

You can support frogs and insects by digging out a pond and having a pile of logs and rocks lying around. Difficult to do on a window sill, but possible on a balcony.