About 4 years ago, I became the keeper of a local allotment plot.  I know what you are thinking.  How can someone who says she has no time or sticking power ever even consider getting an allotment, never mind keeping it for 4 years?

Well first of all, I never wanted it.  Having a fair sized garden already, I know how much work goes into taming plants.  It was the teenage child who pestered and pestered for it, then retired grandparents came on board and said that they would support it as it would give...