Team AG’s gardening hits and misses
■ Ruth Hayes
IT has been a strange year for growers and gardeners up and down the country and our experiences seem to have tallied with those of many of our readers.
John Negus’s postbag has been bulging with tales of troubled tomatoes and we had woes of our own.
The cold start to the summer meant the toms suffered and seemed to take an age to get going.
Bizarrely, the ones growing outside fared better and ripened quicker than those in the greenhouse, but they still remained watery and tasteless thanks, no doubt, to the poor summer weather.
Nature in action is quite gory
On the plus side, although many remained green, chutney-making became a major autumn occupation.
Another failure were the summer brassicas, though blame for that lies squarely at my door for not deploying the netting until it was too
