Kitchen Garden

PRISTINE PLOTTERS v PATCHY PLOTTERS

Allotments are all about people. There are plants thrown in for good measure but allotments are a gathering of gardeners and when you have that you can have great camaraderie but you can also have conflict. Fortunately, most allotments are a hotbed of peace and love with everyone helping each other but occasionally there can be angst among plotters, especially when you have two different types of plotter as neighbours. I will call them the Pristine Plotter and the Patchy Plotter. There is a scale of extremes for these two plotters (see below) and all of us

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