In the meantime, depending on your local climate you can probably do quite well just by growing things you might have in the pantry. Many things will grow dire

In the meantime, depending on your local climate you can probably do quite well just by growing things you might have in the pantry. Many things will grow directly if you just plant them - including garlic, ginger, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, onions, shallots. Other things you can get the seeds out (you might need to google a bit of prep for some of them) - chilies, tomatoes, peppers/capsicum/bell peppers, pumpkin, cucumber, and eggplants/aubergines. I'm certainly not an experienced gardener but have had success with all of the above except eggplant/aubergine which I've only just started trying and potatoes which I believe take a bit more effort than I'm prepared to do.