Incredible edibles: Beans and sweetcorn are set to burst from the soil

We might have thought it a lousy spring. Many plants evidently disagree. We have more wild orchids in the orchard than ever before. What is it that they are liking? I wish I knew. It seems to me that no human life is long enough to properly understand the interconnectedness of growing things. Yet cheery young presenters bob up nightly on television 'explaining' plants and animals as confidently as though they were their brothers and sisters.







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