I was laid low by a toxic COURGETTE: Music company boss was sick for four days after eating homegrown vegetable Mike Andrews, 64, from east Yorkshire, hallucinated with toxic squash syndrome The music management company director suffered sickness and diarrhoea He join dozens who have fallen victim to a rogue batch of poisonous courgettes By Chris Brooke … Read more
Britons would run out of food by this Friday if the nation was solely reliant on homegrown produce, according to new research. Analysis by the National Farmers’ Union has found the proportion of the food that we consume that is produced in the UK has plummeted from 80 per cent in 1980 to just 64 … Read more
A woman has sparked a hilarious thread of would-be gardeners sharing their failed lockdown ‘crops’ across Britain, after going viral with a picture of her tiny carrots. Janet Oswald, from London, took to Facebook group Family Lockdown Tips & Ideas this week, after deciding to grow her own vegetables amid the panic buying and shortages that … Read more