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The right to dig The earliest allocations were often acts of charity or benevolence, aimed at addressing poverty and hunger and the costs of relieving these misfortunes. A tenancy agreement, which usually lasts for a year and is renewable, is signed by you and the owner or owner’s agent (such as a site association) and you will pay rent, which the law says must be reasonable, in advance. Designing your plot layout to work best for you and to minimise problems via crop rotation is tackled first, followed by a directory of vegetables to grow (both the usual suspects and more unusual crops) , techniques to use and ending with a guide to the seasonal year are all explained in detail, accompanied by lavish photographs and sprinkled with seasonal recipes. Easy Jams, Chutneys and Preserves was a collaboration with his wife, Val, and it has become a bestseller because of it's straightforward, honest style.Sailing By (One) by Jeremy Boyce When it’s lively like that you need the vision of Nostradamus just to steer through the Hokusais. By following these guides, even a complete novice can put fresh wholesome food on the family’s table all year round. But some aspects of allotment gardening are reassuringly constant, and from a down-to-earth perspective nothing has fundamentally changed: the soil is almost the same as it was (slightly improved in the best cases), the weather remains a seasonal challenge (but a little more so with the advent of climate change), and the basic gardening techniques are those familiar to the Diggers of more than three centuries ago. Whether you're an urban gardener, a first-time vegetable grower, or have your own allotment, this illustrated guide takes the uncertainty out of your harvest with clear, reliable gardening advice for every month of the year. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

Advice and information on growing vegetables through the year, this book is really easy to read and easy to use too.It is full of colourful and relevant illustrations…The content is packed with excellent down-to-earth advice. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Month-by-month alerts help you guard against the season's garden pests and diseases to ensure a top-quality harvest. You ultimately decide how much or how little you do, and even sitting out a rain shower in the shed can be therapeutic. These days, urban allotments are just as likely to sport barbecue sites, wildlife sanctuaries, heritage seed collections, forest gardens, sculpture, beehives and ponds as once-derided rows of yellowing Brussels sprouts.