Letters from the country : St Erth's creator traces his gardening life

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Letters from the country : St Erth's creator traces his gardening life

‘Letters from the Country’ July 1988

My first effort at gardening, when I was four, has become a family legend and, like most legends, the story is probably based on fact.

I had been watching my father – pricking out vegetable seedlings, some in boxes and some in the ground. “Why do you do that?’ I asked. “To ...

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