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    Letters to Wendy

    Jul 14, 2020 3 minutes

    Write to us: Letters, Amateur Gardening magazine, Pinehurst 2, Pinehurst Road, Farnborough Business Park, Farnborough, Hants GU14 7BF (please include your address).

    Email us: amateurgardening@futurenet.com

    Preserve our plots!

    FURTHER to your news article on allotments (AG, 27 June), I have a plot in Mirfield, West Yorkshire. It is on a flood plain and we flood every year now, so with this in mind, we are hopeful our site won’t go for housing.

    Unfortunately, that can’t be said for Dewsbury, the next town

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