BACK TO FRONT gardening

Growing vegetables in your front garden evokes memories of the TV series The Good Life when Tom and Barbara Good turn their suburban front garden into a smallholding. The second episode has Tom driving a beast of a rotavator straight across his perfectly manicured front lawn much to the horror of his neighbour Jerry.

There is something a bit rebellious about growing fruit and veg in the front garden. Many front gardens tend to be kept plain and simple often laid to gravel and paving or have a postage stamp piece of grass. What an amazing thing it would be if