I was pleasantly surprised when I got an email from the Acton Gardening Association last October telling me that a plot had become available at the Bromyard allotments. I had put my name down so long ago, I’d completely forgotten. I asked if I could come and see the plot before making up my mind, and got a bit of a shock. It was strewn with weeds and discarded plastic and had what looked like a fly tip at one end. There were no crops apart from some potatoes and spring onions. I could see at a glance it would be a lot of work to get it into a fit state to plant some summer vegetables, not to mention looking after them once they were in the ground. ‘I’ll take it,’ I said.
I didn’t visit again until this April, by which time it resembled a little patch of wilderness.
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