Letters to Wendy: from AG readers
IHEARTILY agree with Alan Titchmarsh’s views about children being educated on all things green (AG News, 15 August).
In the 1950s, when I was a child, myself and my like-minded friends were given a corner of the garden and six random, assorted seeds in a packet, plus a few simple instructions to follow. Mine contained fruit, vegetables, flowers and one herb – mint.
There was a lot of healthy competing between us — who had the most colourful, who had the tallest, etc. We used what would normally be discarded, such as toilet roll inserts, newspaper, lolly sticks, margarine tubs and empty bean tins. It kept us out of mischief, gave us a focus and a joy of creating things, and a lifelong hobby that saves money.
What Alan didn’t mention was that it also helps in keeping fit and reducing obesity from a young age.