Gardening
Just like Bird of the Year, in my garden I have my own official Vegetable of the Year. In 2018 it was cucumbers. We came home from a camping holiday and harvested about 20 of them. The following year it was strawberries. They were so perfectly red and juicy that I photographed them displayed in a blue and white bowl in various areas of the garden, then proudly posted pictures of them on Instagram.
Then in 2020, it was kohlrabi, a type of cabbage that is also known as a space cabbage because it looks like an alien. I’d never grown or eaten kohlrabi before, but unlike other forward-thinking gardeners, who’d cleaned the garden centres out of edible seedlings before we went into Lockdown 2020 Season 1, I hadn’t been that organised, so I raided my
