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A quiet corner
in the productive garden of Tony Gipp and his wife Barbara |
To that end,
Tony has turned his inventiveness to adapting conventional gardening
tools and spends many hours and many miles on the road for his charity
spreading the word, demonstrating an armoury of "bits and bobs"
and talking with a passion about his passion.
His estate car
is laden with a staggering array of what he has nicknamed "dodged"
tools - crutches adapted into dibbers, clever no-bend weeders, specially
nozzled watering cans which can pour in any direction and extra
light gardening aids.
An eye-catching
rose in the Gipps' garden |
Each has been
given a test run on his 2.5 acre smallholding in the heart of West
Norfolk where he and his wife Barbara grow organic vegetables in
the peat-rich soil to sell from a roadside stall.
It was Barbara,
a long-time advocate of organic gardening long before it established
its high public profile or had its first airing on The Archers,
who lit her husband’s gardening touchpaper.
She is also
the prompt and test bed for many of his adaptations as arthritis
takes a painful toll on her dexterity.
You can keep
in touch with Tony, who is happy to try to answer your questions,
here at BBC Norfolk Online.
Battle
to beat the weed invasion>>>
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