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Another scoop story from NTV. One day in July 2006 two people started on an adventure that was to lead them to the heights of elation and depths of despair. What? All that on an allotment? Here is their story.

Thanks to David Slack Allotments for the space.

		July 2006 the inherited allotment. Lush growth of Elymus repens, a diuretic if taken under direction. Also greenhouse collapsus.
		Within a month the Elymus was receding.
		By late Autumn some small achievement.
		Late potatoes. The full crop, investment £5 - return 5p.
		Spring 07 - anticipation. Some stuff in but still hiding underground.
		July 2007. Greenhouse has gone. Had a dry April and May and very wet June. We've had some potatoes, onions, raspberries, strawberries, garlic. There's a lot to protect from; Woodpigeons love your brassicas, Blackbirds love your strawberries, Slugs and Butterflies slowly causing problems. Gooseberry sawfly ate all the leaves in 2 days. An amazing variety of weeds.
		Gent chasing woodpigeons.
		Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away. Now I find today my cabbage has been eaten away. Oh I believe in yesterday.
		'....I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.' (Abraham Lincoln)
		Alan, King of the Runner Beans, surveying lots of shallots on his allotment. July 2007. Click below to download his 4 photos in full size> 1.2.3.4.
		26th August 2007. Greenhouse gone. Not a big crop but quite a list of different things. Potatoes, onions red and white, French beans, corn, tomatoes, peas, broad beans, broccoli, chard, courgettes, choi(?), rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, apples, leeks. Nearly all picked now but some new going in. Found a box with a frog and a toad living in it. Have left it there but its a bit of a nuisance.