Peter Dowdall: Gardens can save the planet

Don a cape rather than your anorak as Peter Dowdall explains why gardeners have superhero status

I CANNOT think of a pastime more connected with and more relevant to the challenges facing the environment in which we all live than gardening. All of our gardens have critical roles to play in terms of both species extinction and climate change. Gardens can save the planet, which makes us, the gardeners, the superheroes! That’s a pretty bold statement and I never would have thought that I would be describing a bunch of predominantly middle-aged, some anorak wearing individuals who like to tend the allotment as superheroes but there you go, that’s the truth of the matter.