I AM SLAP bang in the middle of the seed-sowing season, that most hectic of times when the ‘windowsill’ propagator is packed with small pots, the staging in the greenhouse is filling up too quickly with seedlings in modules and trays, and I have begun sowing and planting outside in the vegetable beds. What could be more encouraging? What could show more clearly, to myself and to the world, that I am a fully paid-up member of
