Your news items on the Food Up Front scheme, encouraging people to grow their own food in their own front gardens, seems bizarre. Wouldn't the back garden be more appropriate?

One could just imagine what would happen to all those lovely tomatoes on display by the front door, ripening in the midday sun. You would wake up one morning to discover that some joker had nicked the lot, leaving a little note behind Thank you very much, it's saved me a trip to Sainsbury's'.

DAVID MACCINI Buckhold Road Wandsworth