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I HEARTILY agree with Alan Titchmarsh’s views about children being educated on all things green (AG News, 15 August). In the 1950s, when I was a child, myself and my like-minded friends were given a corner of the garden and six random, assorted seeds in a packet, plus a few simple instructions to follow. Mine contained fruit, vegetables, flowers and one herb – mint.
There was a lot of healthy competing between us — who had the most colourful, who had the tallest, etc. We used what would normally be discarded, such as toilet roll inserts, newspaper, lolly sticks, margarine tubs and empty bean tins. It…
