Rhapsody in Green: A novelist, an obsession, a laughably small excuse for a vegetable garden

Award-winning writer and Gardening Correspondent for the New Yorker Charlotte Mendelson has a secret life. Despite owning only six square metres of urban soil and a few pots, she is an extreme gardener; the creator of a tiny but bountiful edible jungle. And like all enthusiasts, she will not rest until you share her obsession. This is the story of an amateur gardener's journey to addiction: her attempts to buy lion dung from London Zoo and to build her own cold frame; her disinhibited compo...