Sowing seeds of veggie success

JUST occasionally something happens which gives me this nasty smug feeling that I’m a visionary who’s ahead of his time.

The other day I stumbled across an old typescript I had written as a rookie feature writer prophesying that oil supplies were diminishing and the price of a barrel of crude would go through the roof. It was written in 1969.

OK, it took nearly 40 years, but I was right, wasn’t I? And the other day I read a fascinating statistic. This year the amount of vegetable seeds sold to amateur gardeners in Britain and Ireland exceeded the amount of flower seeds for the first time since the 1940s.