Plot luck: two new allotment sites to be won for growers in England and Wales

Green Allotments wants to give hope to people who are on allotment waiting lists. Photograph: Gary Yeowell/Getty Images

Frustrated beetroot, bean and berry growers can now enter their dream contest: to win two new allotment sites, which will be purchased in neighbourhoods starved of good places to grow fruit and vegetables.

The charity Green Allotments is pledging to buy and set up new not-for-profit allotment sites with peppercorn rents for two lucky communities.