Many women learned to love working on the land during the Second World War when growing more food was essential to the nation's survival.

Now a new scheme is giving women in Sussex the chance to turn their hobby of gardening into a career.

The Women Returners to Amenity Gardening Scheme is an imaginative project which provides pioneering apprenticeships.

There are also benefits for owners of gardens as they are given some excellent horticultural ideas.

Too many people these days are divorced from the land to such an extent that some children do not realise vegetables come from the ground.

This scheme makes women really appreciate the glory of gardens in a county that boasts some of the best in Britain.