One Man and his Dig by Valentine Low

Catherine Shoard5 April 2012

Whether your fingers are muckiest green or purest ivory, it'll be hard to keep them from turning the pages of this weirdly gripping chronicle of a digging year by the Evening Standard reporter, from initial trip to the manure depot to first harvest of the spuds. Yes, he's raking over familiar ground: chinwagging with the colourful locals, scrapping with the wife over which type of beans to grow (runner, broad or borlotti). But Low does so with such charm and wit it's impossible to mind.

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