Strange how things pan out....this is year no 10 for me and my veg patch, in the past i've failed to get good crops with everything except....beetroot and carrots always got good crops from them, until this year. Dad now he had good crops of everything except...beetroot and carrots, guess what his best crops are this year!!!
As an aside those old boys i talk about were the last of the National Service generation, and they grew up during food rationing of the WW2 and the following years, so garden produce, ferreted/lurchers/snared rabbits, fishing (there was and still is a v good angling