[nightshade]

My grandfather lived in a two up two down cottage and was a great gardener, many a time I had to cycle to Bathto get just 2ozs of Long Red Surrey(a carrot variety)a twenty mile round trip!
He was also a great hedgerow cultivator,the front garden was huge,the back garden long and vaguely triangular but it seemed to go on forever as he had pinched 3-4 feet of land and hedgerow stretching for several hundred yards
In this strip he actively grew or encouraged many wild varieties of edible plant
He also trapped food animals, birds and collected eggs.
Unfortunately,although I was interested I accepted what went on and expected it would last forever as children do,so never made a study of the plants I do feel that this way of life helped shape the britain we know and should be included from time to time as it may explain some anomolies when plants are found out of the blue in strange locations