Like many people gardening found me in the spring of 2020. An initial love of flowers soon became equalled by a passion for growing food. I’d recently had two daughters in close succession with less than a year between them and had become a full time carer to my youngest who was born with epilepsy. By the autumn of 2019 her seizures had stopped and we went happily into 2020 with the hopeful optimism a new year and new decade brings and well, we all know what happened then! With my husband at home on furlough and my daughter’s not yet school age and in spite of the horrific global situation we had a good few months. Gardening became a hobby that I embraced with the enthusiasm I’ve found for new hobbies countless times before. I even added my name to the long allotment waiting lists.