The Expert Vegetable Notebook: Begins by helping you choose and care for your plants . Ends by providing a permanent record of your growing year

Growing your own food has become one of the nation's most popular pastimes - in 2008 sales of vegetable seeds exceeded sales of flower seeds for the first time. "The Vegetable & Herb Expert" is the UK's best-selling gardening book and has been for the last decade. But how do you remember what happened when next year's growing season comes round? "The Vegetable Notebook" is the ideal companion to the world's best-selling grow-your-own book. It begins by helping you choose and care for your plants, and ends by providing a permanent record of your growing year. With sections for the gardener to fill in showing varieties grown, when they were planted and what happened (and how it tasted), it's just the thing to turn to when you need to start afresh next year. The Vegetable Jotter and its sister the Plotter dominated the vegetable book world in the 1970s and early 1980s - more than 2.5 million were sold. Now completely updated with the latest seed lists and pest control measures, "The Vegetable Notebook" is the must-have companion to the world's most trusted grow-your-own guide.

Dr David Hessayon initiated a major innovation in gardening publications in 1959 with the first of his Gardening Expert guides. These best-selling guides have had an unparalleled influence on gardening over the past 50 years. There are now 51 million copies in print. Dr Hessayon was awarded the 1993 Gardening Book of the Year Award from the Garden Writers Guild and received the first-ever Lifetime Achievement 'Oscar' at the National British Book Awards. In 1999 he received a Guinness World Record Award as 'Britain's best-selling living author of the 1990s'. He lives in Essex, and has two daughters and four grandchildren.