Amateur Gardening

MEMORY LANE

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A feature from John in an issue of AG in 1989

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y passion for gardening began when I was eight years old, when Dad was a grocer. We lived on an estate and he delivered tins of beans and everything else in cardboard boxes to residents in an old Austin Ruby saloon. When Dad retired and we moved to

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