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Daily Post assistant news editor Deborah James took on an overgrown allotment in an effort to relax and unwind from the stresses of city life.

Over the last two years she and three friends have worked to bring the all-but derelict plot back to life - occasionally managing to cook a meal with the produce.

But balancing careers and home lives with maintaining their urban oasis has not always been easy…

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Posted by Deborah James on October 2, 2007 9:23 PM

Apologies to regular readers for my low blog count of late.

It's been a hectic few months away from the allotment, which unfortunately has struggled to recover from the summer's heavy rains...causing waterlogging which in turn unleashed a monstrous explosion in the slug population.

In fact I have to admit I'm dreading going down to the Vale and finding out just how bad it is ...the last I knew the tomatoes were coming on strong but pretty much everything else had been destroyed - either rotted by mini-floods or munched by the gastropods.

This page contains an archive of all entries posted to Down the Allotment in the October 2007. They are listed from oldest to newest.

August 2007 is the previous archive.

Many more can be found on the home page or by looking through the archives.