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My father tells a story of when he was in the army. A particularly pompous officer lifted the lid of a dish of vegetables and snorted "carrots are not an officer's vegetable" before storming off.I mention this in light of a brief discussion I had

on the cuteness scale but that is not much use if you are trying to grow vegetables. (They also, if Alvin and the Chipmunks are to be believed, have really irritating voices). In the same bracket come groundhogs - who can have about five burrows, each one

of our vegetables they consume, I am pretty sure that they would taste revolting.

in Surrey to prevent dogwood from taking over. Since then they've got bigger and bigger and do sterling work tree planting and clearing vegetation all over the country. It's a great way to give something back, get outside, meet interesting people and come