allotment

Kathy Bishop and Tom Crowford swapped city life for a fresh start in the West Country, where they grow their own delicious produce and savour their close connection to nature. Find out how they did it with their guide to starting you own smallholding.

With so many plotholders on site, it's important that communal areas are dealt with sensitively. Unfortunately, some recent clearance of the biodiversity zone overstepped the mark...

Winter is here, but there's still a little time to dig over beds and make some late plantings

Despite only have her plot a couple of months, Rosee Woodland has got lucky with the weather and is enjoying the fruits (and veg) of her labours.

Thanks to their biodiversity, allotments are a great place for wildlife spotting, as Rosee Woodland discovers on her new plot.

A few weeks into getting her long-awaited allotment, Rosee Woodland has been busy clearing and even planting, thanks to a helpful legacy left by the previous tenant.

Rosee Woodland finally gets her hands on her very own allotment. But it's overgrown and on the side of a steep hill...Find out how Rosee gets on in our new allotment diary series