National Trust are releasing land for allotments
It wasn't that long ago that "allotment gardening" was almost a synonym for "unfashionable".
It was something that people did when they were too old to have anything interesting to do with their summer evenings, before going home to put their slippers on and have a cup of cocoa.
But, spurred on by Jamie, Gordon, Hugh and the rest of the TV cheferati, and combined with concerns about climate change and sustainability, there has been a dramatically increased interest in growing your own.
Up and down the country, old allotment hands are pestered for advice, as yummy mummies and other urban trendies rediscover the joys of peas fresh from the pod and just-dug potatoes.

Those who sneered at the allotment brigade are now green-fingered with envy, as waiting lists top 100,000 nationally.
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