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The Independent
9 hours ago
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- The Independent
Sir David Beckham has Victoria in stitches over his wonky carrot
had wife Victoria in stitches at his wonky carrots as the newly knighted former professional footballer proudly showed off his vegetable patch. David posted a video update of his vegetable garden on instagram saying, "not exactly what I expected but to be fair it had Lady Beckham laughing." He went on to say, Victoria, "sorry about my carrot." Beckham was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours list on June 13.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Who tackles slugs in Meghan Markle's vegetable plot?
I CAN'T wait for our fruit and veg to be ready this year. When I've picked the perfect specimens of carrots, beans, lettuce, onions, courgettes and tomatoes I'll be sure to arrange them beautifully in a wicker basket and clutch it proudly while my husband takes a few pictures. I'll then stick them on Instagram for the world to admire. Of course this isn't true. I don't have an Instagram account but, more crucially, like last year and the year before that, it will be touch and go as to whether our crops are successful - last summer they were annihilated by slugs. I hate to admit I'm envious of Meghan Markle, Her vegetable garden yields crops worthy of red rosettes at The Yorkshire Show. She shared a picture on Instagram - reproduced on news websites - of a 'garden haul' of fresh produce seemingly grown at her Montecito mansion in California. There's broccoli, carrots, corn, red peppers and squash as well as spring onions and an assortment of fresh herbs. Meghan joins the growing band of celebrities and other rich and famous people showing off their home-grown produce on social media. Critics piled in with their cynical observations, chiefly the lack of soil on any of the Duchess of Sussex's produce. They've got a point. Does Meghan get her hands dirty tending her veg? Picture: Aaron Chown/PA David Beckham's crop of picture-perfect, freshly harvested radishes - which wife Victoria posted on social media - also caught my eye. 'He's been gardening all day and here he is, tending to his vegetable patch,' her caption read. Kneeling next to a raised bed, David clutches a clean-as-a-whistle horseradish just plucked from the garden at his Cotswold estate. It wasn't the lack of soil - although the veg was spotless - that struck me about the picture, it was his clean white canvas shoes and jeans. For someone who had been gardening all day there were no grubby knees. Maybe he'd just changed for the photo, who knows? I don't doubt that either Meghan or Becks garden. Both do, and they clearly enjoy it, which is great, but do they get stuck into any real grow-your-own gardening - the sort of hard slog, permanent dirt-under-the fingernails pursuits made famous by Tom and Barbara Good in the TV show The Good Life? If you ask me it's more like dabbling Growing crops demands real effort, on a daily basis, for many weeks of the year. It is hard work, as my husband and I have discovered in the 20 years since we acquired a garden. Preparing the soil and sowing takes time, then it's a constant battle to keep on top of pests: one week you're fighting blackfly on your broad beans, the next carrot fly - and not only on carrots - and white rot on onions and leeks. There's slugs, slugs and more slugs. I've even resorted to slug patrol at midnight, to remove the slimy beasts from our young courgette plants. I can't see Meghan or David doing that. Just-sown plants need protection from birds like pigeons, sparrows, and crows, and from cats raking up the soil. Then, perhaps most important of all, there's the weather: daily watering in dry spells, preventing waterlogging and keeping them upright throughout wet periods. The Beckhams' main residence is London - a long way from those raised beds. Growing veg presents great photo opportunities, but let's face it, many lifestyles are not conducive to tending them week-in-week-out. My husband and I are lucky, I suppose - our uneventful life means we can put in the hours. Having said that, it's good to know that if we were ever away cruising the Med or shopping in New York, our wonderful neighbours over the road would happily step in and do our watering. For many famous faces growing their own, there must be help behind the scenes. So, let's hear it for the many gardeners who are beavering away out of sight, hoes in hand.
