Amateur Gardening

Letters from the archives

We delve into the archives of Amateur Gardening to share some interesting readers’ letters, this week from the edition dated 17 June 1978

A sense of taste

BEING an ‘old-time gardener’, I most wholeheartedly deplore the apparent deterioration in the flavour of our fruit and vegetables. There are, however, two practical points which we must not lose sight of.

First, we are all prepared to admit that as we advance in age our senses deteriorate to a greater or lesser degree – eyesight, hearing and

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