Britain's plot holders dug through two wars and a waiting list
Enclosure created the British allotment and the 1908 Act made councils provide it. In 2023, a count found 174,183 people waiting for a plot.
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A high tunnel can add weeks to the growing year at both ends
Penn State Extension says a high tunnel can start the crop up to eight weeks before the field season and carry it six weeks past the first frost.
Britain's allotments owe their survival to a century of law
A 1908 duty on councils and a 1925 Act gave Britain's allotments legal cover. Here is how that cover held as plots fell from 1.4 million to 300,000.
Germany's allotments began as play space for poor children
Germany has about a million Kleingarten allotments, 70,000 of them in Berlin. They started as fresh air for factory children. Now builders want the land.
Clay and sandy soil fail a garden in opposite ways
Clay holds water but packs hard, and sand drains fast but feeds little. Sarah Raven suggests persicaria for clay, and nepeta and thyme for sand.