This adorable child in hand-made knitwear is me (Alison), aged two, in my Dad’s vegetable garden. According to Dad, I adopted this prize cauliflower as a pet and tended to it as carefully as a two year old can, ‘all by myself’. Many, (ahem) many years later I made my own vegetable garden and decided to see if I still
had the golden touch with brassicas. Here are the results of my first attempt - sorry Dad! He reckons my standards have slipped a bit. I reckon he might have helped me out with that pet cauliflower a bit more than he let on….

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