Spotlight Magazines Spotlight on Stenson Fields and Sinfin June 2015 | Page 16

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Never Too Late

ardening is an ongoing affair and
though timing is important, we often
become overwhelmed by a sense of being
‘too late to plant’ by some arbitrary date.
Often we bandy dates around as though
they were written in stone.

My granddad insisted all potatoes and
spring beans had to be sown by Good
Friday, and the gooseberry bush had to be
in leaf