Amateur Gardening

Salad days

WHEN Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey said that Brits should fight supermarket food shortages by eating more turnips, I was cock-a-hoop. After all, who doesn’t love a gin and tonic with a slice of turnip?

What’s caused the shelves to be empty (again) is a topic of hot debate. The government blames bad

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