The allotment looms

I dropped into the parish office today to see how the allotment queue was going. When I added my name last year, they said it could be two to three years before I got one.

Today, I'm number 3 and that will very shortly go down to 2.

Eeep!

I need to start doing some serious reading.

All good advice seriously welcome. What things are easy and rewarding to grow? I've done plenty of gardening over the years, but mostly herbaceous flowers selected on the 'survivor' principle. If it survives, I grow it.

What do you do about slugs (if you're being organic)?

The other big problem is that they don't allow sheds on site, so you can't store much there.

I've grabbed a couple of books from the local library. Let's see if I have the stamina for all that digging...