Letters to Wendy
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Allotment tales
LAST year our allotment was a complete success. Having taken on five poles of land, an attempt on vegetable self-sufficiency commenced! Neither of us were complete amateurs, 50 years ago I helped my dad’s veggie garden and I still remember the basics. Jackie had trained as a horticulturist. The land had been worked and the soil was good.
We started with broad beans, feeding the mice population for a few weeks but once they’d had their fill the rest were ours and
