New shoots old tips

As heard on BBC Radio 4, broadcaster Caroline Holmes conducts a tour throughardening tips and tales down the ages, from the biblical Noah, who 'began toe a husbandsman, and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine and wasrunken' to George Bernard Shaw - 'Gardening is the only unquestionablyseful job.' The range of advice is wide in scope, and includes therescriptions of Roman writers, medieval folklore, descriptions of lostardens, old wives' tales and modern authorities. On any given topic, fromeed saving to vegetable growing to garden tools, New Shoots, Old Tipsresents thousands of years of wit and wisdom. New Shoots, Old Tips receivedhe Garden Writers' Guild Radio Broadcast of the Year Award 2001.