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    Focus on… Allotments

    Jul 20, 2021 2 minutes

    HERE are well over 300,000 of them in the UK, and they offer an excellent route to grow fruit, vegetables and herbs if you don’t have a sizeable garden – plus, they inject a colourful sense of community and culture into our lives. I am, of course, talking about allotment plots, and the way we look after them has an impact not just on

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