SCHOOLS could give gardening lessons, says The Argus (August 10).

But it is a subject that never should have gone away in the first place.

I attended a boys’ secondary school in Tonbridge, Kent, between 1952 and 1956. We had weekly lessons on all things garden, how plants evolve and how to tend them. Furthermore, in our fourth grade pupils shared allotments, the produce of which was sold off at the end of the summer term. Within a year of leaving school the allotments were built on.

I reckon the Government could learn a lot from the time I was at school. Physical fitness for a start.

A R Edwards Lewes Road, Eastbourne