I really like your writing about gardening. I noticed that keeping allotments in Britain was not so commmon? People here have usually two gardens - or better one garden divided into two parts: one for growing vegetable, the second for flowers. There are numerous "colonies" of small "allotments", sometimes it looks very funny because these are literally crammed with everything possible and sometimes even impossible, including small garden shelters which only LOOK like these but they are actually REAL small cottages. People can build them only on their respective place, so they go on building higher and higher!