GrowVeg.com is run by Growing Interactive, a UK-based company with offices in the UK and US, providing the most innovative garden planning service on the Internet. We are committed to:
- making it easy and enjoyable for you to plan your vegetable garden
- providing clear and reliable information to give you growing success
- giving you excellent customer service
Our Garden Planner software is fully adapted to specific regions across America and other parts of the world.
Meet the GrowVeg.com Team
Jeremy Dore is the founder of GrowVeg.com. He is a computer programmer and a keen organic gardener. In 2004 he dug up his front lawn to plant vegetables and he has been hooked ever since. His interest in organic gardening led to him developing our powerful Garden Planner software (US Patent Pending). Jeremy’s favorite vegetables are freshly-picked cherry tomatoes which he chops with basil and garlic for a fantastic bruschetta topping.
Dan Dore is our designer, internet marketing strategist and web guru. Dan loves almost anything edible from his allotment which he is gradually taming.
Jayne Dore is director of the company and keeps an eye on the strategy and planning as well as more mundane jobs such as editing most of our web content. She likes fresh salad leaves tossed with spring onion, radish and balsamic vinegar.
Barbara Pleasant is an award-winning garden writer in the US and is our American horticultural expert. She produces all the growing information for our American users and regularly writes for our GrowBlog. A contributing editor for Mother Earth News and The Herb Companion magazines, Barbara has written more than a dozen gardening books including The Complete Compost Gardening Guide (Storey Books, 2008) and Starter Vegetable Gardens (Storey Books, 2010). She grows a huge food garden in Virginia, where her favourite crops are whatever happens to be perfect for picking on any given day.
Benedict Vanheems is editor of kitchen gardening magazine Grow it! as well as a regular contributor to our GrowBlog. Benedict started off growing vegetables as a youngster under the green-fingered guidance of his granddad. Today he tends a modest plot at home where his particular favourites are beetroots and runner beans, which ‘thrive no matter what the weather throws at them’. His number one gardening moment? Digging up the first of the new potatoes and serving them lightly boiled with a curl of butter and a sprinkling of chopped garden chives.
Helen Gazeley is a freelance writer on gardening matters and a regular contributor to our Growblog. Her garden's not tidy, but it is productive and she's sure the weeds do wonders for wildlife. Luckily she works from an office beside her vegetable plot, so she can nip out for a spot of composting whenever deadlines allow.
Susie Hughes is one of our support staff and is an enthusiastic organic gardener both at home and her local primary school where she organises the reception class garden. Her favourite home produce are victoria plums and pole beans (although not together).
Ann Marie Hendry runs her own horticultural business in Scotland and writes gardening articles as well as being one of our support staff. She has never yet managed to cook her home-grown peas, as she can’t resist eating them straight out of the pod.
Kate Bradbury produces articles for our GrowGuides section. She has written for Grow Your Own magazine and now works for BBC Gardener's World.com. Kate likes to grow broad beans and beetroot on her allotment and loves to eat them freshly picked with a potato salad and some chopped chives.
Kathy Benzinski also writes for our GrowGuides section. She works both as a gardener and as an experienced editor/writer. She lives in the countryside and, apart from the family garden, cultivates a small field, where she has planted an orchard and grows herbs and vegetables in an organic plot. She loves onions and garlic, because the badgers and rabbits tend to leave them to grow.
Laura Cook is another of our GrowGuides writers. She is made up of equal parts gardener, writer and vegan. She has contributed to Grow Your Own and Gardens Monthly in the UK, and tries to grow things her cats can't dig up. She also likes to eat long-neglected arugula, once it has become ridiculously hot and peppery.
Steve Lancaster edits our website content while the rest of the company are asleep, having recently emigrated to Australia with his family. Steve writes for Organic Gardening magazine in Australia and is head chef at a vegetarian restaurant in Adelaide. His favorite vegetables are hot chili peppers served as an accompaniment to almost anything.
Focused on Your Gardening Success
GrowVeg.com is dedicated to providing a superb service to all our users. We value feedback and are continually developing our service to meet the needs of gardeners worldwide. Our regularly updated GrowBlog often highlights issues we're interested in along with comments from our community of users. We’d love to hear from you about our service – just use our Contact page to get in touch.