OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH
JULIE HALSEY FROM MILTON KEYNES
A passion for growing her own started in childhood when Julie watched her father twist off rhubarb stalks and later enjoyed eating them raw, dipped in sugar. Now the same love is being passed to her granddaughter Annabelle, who loves to help out on Julie’s plot and is especially good at harvesting raspberries, although she tends to pick one and eat three!
Do you have an allotment or a veg patch in your garden?
My absolute passion is my sunny plot, situated right in the middle of allotments in Milton Keynes. The plot is a short cycle ride from our house and keeps us well supplied with fruit and vegetables throughout the year. In spite of 201 square metres being slightly too large for our needs, I still can’t resist cultivating the odd trough of lettuces, radishes, pots of cherry tomatoes and an assortment of herbs on the patio at home as well. It is so convenient to nip out of the back door and pick something to add to a lunchtime sandwich, or gather a handful of herbs to add azing of flavour to favourite supper dishes in the very last minute
