Graham Porter gardening Jan 3

Feb 6 2010 by Our Correspondent, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

1Ready, Steady, GROW! – are you and your children gearing up to get sowing and growing on the allotment over the next few weeks? Are you looking for inspiration before the perspiration with your children or grandchildren? A brand new RHS book called ‘Ready, Steady, Grow! has just been published with lots of fabulous quick and easy ideas and projects to get you underway this year. Published by Dorling Kindersley and priced at £9.99, it is worth every penny. ISBN 978-1-40535-238-3.

2 Wakefield Festival of Food, Drink and Rhubarb 2010 – if you have never experienced the joys of forced rhubarb, why not get yourself and your family along to one or two of the events at this years celebration of the forced rhubarb crop over the weekend of February 26 and 27. Call 0845 601 8353 for a full brochure of the events programme or visit www.wakefield.gov.uk and search for Rhubarb Festival 2010. You can also take a look at a pocket history of the Yorkshire rhubarb triangle