I set Best in Show in a mining village in Southern Scotland because most of the miners were proud of their garden. One chap I worked with had a garden of the standard one sees in the magazines. When he was moving from one council house to another he asked the incoming tenant if he would be prepared to pay something for the shrubs and plants that he had planted and arranged. The new chap refused and my friend transplanted everything, including rows and rows of potatoes. He told me the potatoes survived and cropped. I wouldn't want you to get the impression that I knew people who were mean but... http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1535417188
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