Laissez-faire would seem to be the approach I have to gardening. Especially at the moment when summer is ending and autumn beginning. Things look a bit wild. There are Japanese anemones falling about and over paths, the Cecile Brunner is overrunning its support again, the raspberry canes are looking shabby – yet producing lovely autumn fruit, the beans have finished and the leaves are yellowing, there are often toadstools, but…mushrooms? I discovered them inside the frame of the old greenhouse when I went out to pick leafy greens for a salad.

I picked three of them, leaving the fourth to do its thing, whatever that is. They look just like the ones you buy, with pale brown gills inside. Will I poison myself if I add them to a stir fry for dinner?