Edgell’s hobby was fruit growing and on his twenty-odd acres he planted some really fine fruit trees and raised some first class blackcurrants and strawberries.

He ringed the whole in with poplar trees for protection against the biting winds of winter.  

It was thought he was the first man in the country to try sugar beet;  he only did it on a small scale, but he grew some enormous beet.  These were lifted by hand  with a short two-tined fork, manhandled onto a horse-drawn cart  then taken 3 miles to Catfield Station where they were manhandled again into railway wagons.

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