Gardening

I split it into a space each side of the garden about a yard wide I suppose, then a footpath around it with a lawn in the middle grown from grass seed.

What sort of soil did you have - was it good soil?

Oh no, it was sour. I knew nothing about gardening but I believe I just asked people and they told me to buy some soil for growing seeds in, and ultimately I was introduced to bonemeal to enrich it a bit and grew all flowers like dahlias, hollyhocks in the season, sweet williams. My favourites were asters not the perennial ones, I think they called this particular one I like, a big one, California.

In boxes.

Did you have any sort of heat for them?

No, oh no, had to wait until all frosts were finished.

So you didn't grow any indoors, on window ledges?

Oh, no, there wasn't any room indoors, at one time, when we were younger there was one big bed and we slept the wrong way round in it so you could get seven in one bed.