Kitchen Garden

TWO’S COMPANY

How long have you had your shared allotments?

We have had our allotments for more than five years. With both backing on to each other we decided to join them in a rare opportunity to maximise our output. Of course, we want to use these plots for our personal growing but also to share the positive messages about growing your own fruit and vegetables to people across the world.

What made you decide to share your experiences on social media?

We decided sharing our journey on social media would be encouraging to many different people up and down the country. We found we inspired a lot of people and they came to our social media pages to show support, and likewise they inspired us to do more! It allowed us to also find out what did work and what didn’t work

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