I live right next door to this little lot:
Every day I walk past and view with envy as the crops grow in abundance. There is a queue a mile long for these allotments which are run by the local foeffees (now there's a word steeped in history), and given that this is fenland soil, you can imagine the quality of the fruit and veg you can get out of one of these. The upside of there being a queue is it helps to prevent the land from being developed. Here in the east it seems every available square yard is up for building on, so I do welcome the queue, even though I have a long wait.
So, to satisfy a need to grow something I have utilised some of my flower beds and have been self sufficient in salad for the past few weeks:
I have water cress in the pond, salad in the flower beds and the conservatory is doing its best to grow tomatoes. I do have a good sized garden, but it is too nice to dig up for veg, I'll wait for the allotment and use salad for bedding plants. I think they are rather pretty!