Meet the 71-year-old ‘vegetable king’ who has become a lockdown hero

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‘Basically I’m a fanatical vegetable grower, I love growing veg,’ says Gerald Stratford

“My phone was going berserk, and I wasn’t sure what was going on, I phoned up my son-in-law and he said ‘you’ve just gone viral!’ he said.Mr Stratford said he now spent about an hour per day answering people’s gardening questions on Twitter.

 

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“I don’t get involved in politics, religion, race or anything, I’m just me and my garden and my wife supports me; she cooks the produce I grow and we make pickles and chutneys and jams,” sounds like happiness to me.

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