Kitchen Garden

THE CULTIVATED PLOT: NO GOGING BACK

“We’ve never been interested in creating the sort of layout and crops that win prizes for the best kept allotments”

Having thought that my digging days were over and with my wife, Sally, recovering from five hours of open heart surgery, we decided that the best therapy would be to take on an overgrown, 600 sq metre allotment just a short walk from home. That’s two or even three times bigger than the average. With my parents’ garden in North Wales to maintain, a six-acre wood in South Wales, a quarter of an acre plot at home with every inch under cultivation and an existing allotment, it

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