A judge said our youngest competitor's plot 'would be a credit to any seasoned allotmenteer.'

Cleve, well known as an allotmenteer and never happier than when outdoors among his vegetables, rates parsnips highly for their decorative habit and yellow umbels of flower.

But in this glum economic climate, I'd rather have something more prosaic that will get daily use in my garden, like the hosepipe - and I think the same applies to many a gardener and allotmenteer.

An unusual approach perhaps, as most allotment gardeners would gear the layout to a factory-like production system.

Such is her experience that she is on the panel of the society's popular Allotment Gardeners' Question Time.

If you can't influence the policies of ICI, you can appear effective by putting the wind up allotment gardeners.

As the longest serving allotment gardener on my site (34 years) I was able to award myself the title of Father of the Site without any opposition.

For the first year there is a special award for an allotment gardener under 21, and PBI are giving a cup, and a shed-full of their products.

He also appeared in one 1976 episode ('I Talk to the Trees') of the BBC situation comedy The Good Life as slightly eccentric allotment gardener Mr Wakeley.

The International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux, a Luxembourg-based organization representing three million European allotment gardeners since 1926, describes the socio-cultural and economic functions of allotment gardens as follows:

Weeds are actually an asset to the new allotment holder.

A number of allotment holders call to say deer are eating their crops, I tell them to put a fence around it.

Yes, there are several downsides, but for now let's stay positive, as the new allotment holder has a personal Everest to climb.

For the showman, the allotment holder, the plant enthusiast and those who just like to potter around.

"They asked if any of our allotment holders could identify the vegetables and for them to contact us, which they did.

To get evidence against the duo police lined up the food on the roadside and asked allotment holders to identify their stolen vegetables.

Wolviston is a community with a cricket and football team, a guides association and allotment holders club.

Gardeners and allotment holders may not keep animals or be near a convenient source of sewage sludge or other animal waste.

But I hold out little hope under the present administration, the affiliations of which are not exactly to allotment holders......

This organization of European allotment holders represents some three million families (!) across Europe and is making an important contribution by setting up allotments within cities.

My fellow allotment holders, exhausted by unloading manure, wondered if they would suffer the same treatment if gardening was designated as a sport.

And in Cornwall we have included a garden nursery where the allotment holders have a loyalty card and can get a 10 per cent discount."

Until 1988, the allotment holders had to pass East German border controls on their way between Fichtewiese and the rest of West Berlin.

A NEW awards ceremony in Middlesbrough will reward gardeners, allotment holders and businesses who brighten up the town.

For example, in Revill v Newbery an elderly allotment holder was sleeping in his shed with a shotgun, to deter burglars.

Allotment Holders and Gardeners Association; This was formed in response to governments Dig for Victory appeal in 1942.

The allotment holders have gone public inviting visitors to see how to use greener gardening techniques.Whop those weeds with a piece of old carpet and plant bedfellows that get on.

Founded in 1910 for small farmers, allotment holders and gardeners, Smallholder magazine is published monthly by Packet Newspapers in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Allotment Golf had not yet caught the eye either of the allotment holders or the general public, and both Pooley and Omally wished to keep it that way.

There are also allotments in Hawkenbury, in Halls Hole Road, managed by the Hawkenbury Allotment Holder's Association.

A certain amount of subterfuge was called for, of course; they had no wish to alert any of the other allotment holders to the sport for fear that it might catch on.

Allotment holders have been warned that thieves are active in the East Cleveland area with tools and other items having already been stolen from allotments in Skelton and Brotton.

Lady Whitelaw served on the Lakeland Horticultural Society and was vice-president of the Penrith and District Gardeners' and Allotment Holders' Association.

Helpfully, the council added that: 'It should be pointed out that this action would be taken against all allotment holders, whether or not any individual holder has had a bonfire prior to the service of a notice.

'I borrowed a hammer from one of the allotment holders and forced an entry to find the raiders had ran amok inside hurling bricks through the wooden huts and smashing window frames,' he said.