The glories of GROWING

‘My husband and I grow all the things we enjoy eating’

‘Fruit and veg tastes so much better when you’ve grown it yourself’

Julie Williams, 71, is retired and a community volunteer, from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire.

I’ve always loved growing things. I first had an allotment about 30 years ago and looked after it jointly with my friend Sue. We were both into Indian cooking, which required lots of vegetables and specialist herbs, like coriander, which wasn’t so readily available back then, so that’s what we grew.

We took our young sons along to play