Introduction

Back in the summer my son said we should be more environmently freindly and we should really start to recycle some of our weekly rubbish. Well I thought about this and looked at what we throw out each week and thought yes he is right. We were throwing away approximatley 4 black bags of rubbish each week. And thats from a family of 5.

So we got ourselves some containers that we could seperate our rubbish into and we even got our self a compost bin. Taking this one step further we purchased a water butt. It was amazing in a little over a week we had reduced our weekly rubbish to 2 black bags a week.

When I was a child my grandparents grew their own veggies and I used to help my nan pick the peas or dig up the spuds for our dinner. I thought it would be great if I could do this again.

Our next step was to apply to the local council for an allotment.

Just after Christmas I got a call asking if I was still interested in having an allotment. So off we went down to the allotments had a look at what they were offering and paid the rent there and then. We were now the proud owners of a plot of land, a load of weeds and a crop of sprouts, all this and the M6 motorway running above us.