This piece, which originally appeared in the Glasgow Herald, proves what gardeners have always known: that gardening is good for your general fitness level.

But the faddish notion of speed gardening (inevitably from across the pond - I guess the United stand is across the pond...) of turning your weeding and digging into some kind of Fonda-esque aerobics routine is utterly ridiculous, as landscape designer Jasmin Cann points out in the piece:

"We in Scotland are used to seeing gardeners hunched down under hedges and shrubs wearing jeans, jackets and knee pads. I think this sounds very frantic, very Jane Fonda, and it seems to me to miss the meditative aspect of gardening. I just can't see aerobic gardening taking off over here."