According to Sally's mum she grew her first radishes at the age of 2½ and she hasn't stopped since. Now living in a small village in not-so-rural Leicestershire close to a huge quarry with a small plant-infested back garden and a very productive allotment where she grows fruit and hens as well as veg, she describes herself as "a freelance horticultural consultant/gardener, as this covers a multitude of sins....!" She is a wildlife and butterfly recorder and was the youngest ever Flora recorder for Wiltshire Wildlife Trust at age of 14.

Sally is a lifetime professional gardener with Dip Hort RHS; she also studied at Askham Bryan and Lackham colleges. She has worked in variety of places from Leicestershire Museums to Leicester Botanic and Ryton Organic Gardens (2 years as horticultural advisor, 4 years as deputy head gardener), as an outreach worker for Kew's Plantcultures website project and she has also worked with community allotment groups, city farms, garden centres, nursuries and private gardens. She runs courses for Garden Organic (where a new 'Starting an organic allotment course begins in February), Leicestershire museums, community allotments. She writes for various magazines including The Organic Way, BBC Wildlife magazine, Organic Living etc and is the author of soon-to-be-published 'South Asian Vegetables' hopefully launched in late March.