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OVERGROWN PLOTS

I have been a subscriber to your magazine for a number of years and am always envious of the pictures you include showing neat, tidy and manicured allotment sites. I'm enclosing a picture of the site my plot is on, taken last year, and was wondering if other readers find their sites in a similar state to mine? At the time of writing, almost 50% of the plots are either vacant or unworked and have been such for more than 12 months now.

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