Gardening: Winnie's creator was keen gardener | Southsea Green:

In his book The Day’s Play, written in 1910, there is a short chapter on gardening.

‘Never plant spring onions and potatoes in the same bed,’ he exclaims.

By mistake he thought onion bulbs were daffodil bulbs. However, they were in fact young onions that had actually brought tears to the eyes of the new potatoes he had planted, to such an extent that the potatoes were too damp for baking or roasting and had to be mashed.

He thought mashed potatoes were beastly.

He tended his asparagus like a child, placing a hot water bottle in the asparagus bed.

As for rhubarb, he planted this in his flower garden between rows of carnations which, he claimed, ‘excellently improved the complexion of the flowers tenfold’.