Had a bad year? Embrace ‘volunteer crops’, your garden’s gift to you

If plants pop up where you weren’t expecting them, don’t pull them up – you never know what you might findI’ve been as honest as possible about the rubbish growing season I’ve had this year. For reasons beyond my control – mostly life, work and weather – it’s been far from my best. I’ve hobbled along, trying to keep my cool when my trays of seed have barely germinated and while attempting to rescue root-bound plants that I’d somehow for