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This national site, run by an allotment afficionado in Wales, includes allotment diaries, photographs, and advice about growing vegetables, fruits and herbs and includes a chat-room forum.

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Front cover of issue 10

We're growing in north London!

Welcome to Your Allotment, the magazine that reaches the heart of the allotment community in Barnet, Camden, Enfield and Haringey.

If you found the first part of How To Run An Allotment useful, check out Part II in the May issue of Your Allotment to find out how to form and manage a committee and persuade plot-holders to help.

Beat the hosepipe ban

Yes, I know, it should be beat the floods, but when I wrote the May issue, my site still had big cracks in the ground. The RHS vegetable guru, Mario De Pace, offers advice on preserving water...

Losing the Plot

A play about the loves, lives and allotments, to be held at the London Canal Museum ...

SITE OF THE MONTH

Simmons Way: Every estate should have one

Most of the 13 plot-holders at Simmon's Way can see the site from their windows at home, which helps to give it a real community feel. Some have been there for 40 years or more ...

CROP OF THE MONTH

Tomatoes: a blight on the landscape

... unless you can find a way to prevent that scourge of tomato lovers from attacking your crop. Find out how to prevent blight and grow tomatoes successfully, even without a greenhouse...

HOW TO ...
... run an allotment

Part II of this study on how to ensure your site thrives, despite all the pressures on our treasured space. This month we examine how to create the best committee and motivate plot-holders to help out ...

GROWER OF THE MONTH

Bill and Dave: plotting together

Friends and neighbours Bill Thompson and Dave Elliott can thank their wives for their plot on Bourne allotments in Enfield. Read how they turned a horseradish paradise into a productive seed bed of experimental planting ...

PLUS
Recipes, Bob's Corner, What to Grow Now and The Plot Thickens

All for just £2 at the following stockists:

Alexandra Palace Garden Centre
Budgens, Belsize Park
Budgens, East Finchley
Budgens, Crouch End
Cottage Garden Nursery, Arkeley
Finchley Nurseries, Mill Hill
The Garden Shop, Hornsey
Highgate Garden Centre
People's Supermarket
Earth Natural, Kentish Town
... and your local trading hut

If your favourite garden centre isn't listed, ask them to get Your Allotment for you.

Your Allotment welcomes readers' growing tips, advice and recipes and suggestions for grower of the month.

Changes to Your Allotment

Your Allotment is going to switch from a monthly magazine to bi-monthly from the next issue. This will allow us to increase the size of the magazine to a minimum 20 pages and to bring you more local news and growing advice.

In the June/July issue, the third part of how to run an allotment addresses the legal requirements of running an allotment, especially important now that Barnet is asking its sites to sign a self-management lease. And where Barnet goes, others will undoubtedly follow. Our Crop of the Month is sweetcorn, with advice on how to produce ears the US Midwest would be proud of.. The Site of the Month is East Finchley, so big it has its own road running through it, while the Grower of the Month is William Reid, who gets inspiration from his Enfield plots for his work as chef at Union Chapel, Islington.

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