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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Allan Jenkins

It’s been a slow start, but the allotment plot is hitting its stride

Salad days: the oak leaf lettuce is finally ready to be picked.
Salad days: the oak leaf lettuce is finally ready to be picked. Photograph: Allan Jenkins

It’s been something of a strange growing year at the allotment. It has taken an age to turn around. And not just on ours. Most everywhere I looked showed a slower, slightly stunted growth. Largely unresponsive to effort.

Until it wasn’t. It is almost as though our usual May plot didn’t really happen until June. And then, almost invisibly at first, a gardening corner was turned.

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