Green Tomorrow

The Observer must be one of the few newspapers in the world to have its own organic allotment garden. And an ongoing blog about it too. It’s a year old now and the garden’s development has involved community members, local school children and newspaper staff. The first weeks were hard–the amateur gardeners had no idea of how bad the site was, with iron, rusted piping and a concrete wall embedded in the ground. Having cleared that out with the help of a digger, they were on their way. Since this is England and everything and anything will grow here, they planted in late November and by Christmas had 3 inch high shoots of g…