Although production will be limited by the size of your plot, you will be pleasantly surprised at how much food a tiny vegetable patch can produce.
Go for long-running vegetables: courgettes for summer, when a single plant will produce two or three courgettes a week; purple-sprouting broccoli for winter, whose young shoots can be cut and cut until the plant is exhausted.
Select prolific tomato varieties such as 'Sungold' for a long run of tiny fruits, or stand containers about, planted with the variety 'Tumbler'.
Spinach is efficient with space, too, producing a constant supply of fresh green leaves.
When buying vegetable seeds, select special dwarf varieties. There are dwarf runner beans, for example, as well as miniature curly kale and compact broad beans. Spring cabbages are smaller and neater than winter ones.
If you have room for a single fruit tree, select a self-pollinating variety such as 'Victoria' plum, or 'Conference' pear. Alternatively, purchase a so-called 'family' apple tree that has several varieties to a single trunk.
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