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'd venture, briefly and very amateurishly, into Pippa's territory to see what pests are doing their best to blight my garden. I'm not brilliant at such things, and quake inside when people bear down on me, clutching festering leaves in polythene bags. A very

-term possibilities of making a fortune in silk. So much so that at one point old trees were selling for the equivalent of £75 each. The market eventually collapsed and most of the trees died from blight and extreme cold.The reality is that silkworms need too much

us to another problem. There are certain things that don't agree with either compost heaps or shredders. Diseased plant material shouldn't be composted, as the process might not kill the spores of, for example, potato blight or rust. Rose clippings

a hot bath and a glass of something restorative.May the caterpillars discover that synchronized swimming is infinitely preferable to cabbage munching.May your tomatoes be strangers to blight.May you always have just the right number of pots to hand