Gardening is an active hobby

Summertime has been described as the season when there’s nothing much on radio, TV or most girls at the beach but the newspapers . . . ah yes, the newspapers. Did you know that pumpkins are a root vegetable? “With their tough skin and their odd shapes most home cooks have struggled to chop vegetables like pumpkins and swedes,” wrote Donna Bowater in Britain’s The Daily Telegraph, before continuing: “So it will come as no surprise that root foods have topped a poll of the most dangerous vegetables.” And lest those of Scandinavian descent flinch at being referred to as “swedes,’ such is what we more diplomatically know as rutabagas.