My Dad gave me some basics of gardening and compost but I really began with my first house
with its rich Lincs/Leics borders soil in a village where the Pub was my source of all `veg`
knowledge, plants and seeds to. I soaked it all up as a novice of 23yrs and began to grow veg
and keep a few fowls.

My allotment gives me great pleasure, reward, disappointment, failure and is always a learning curve.
Its 500sq yards of light sandy soil with a bit of everything like an old cottage garden plus a wild bit with a frog pond.
I`ve just finished a new shed made of old front doors etc in the what you can find allotment tradition.
It will eventually be decorated and become maybe another work of art.