YOU CAN NEVER REALLY know someone until you’ve gardened with them. That’s what I’ve realised now I’m sharing an allotment with my mother.
We’re the best of friends ordinarily, yet over the past few months, as we’ve dug and mulched and ordered far too many seeds, any emerging green shoots have had to weather some seriously frosty silences. Now, with our first joint growing season gathering pace, I’m wondering whether to expect