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Having completed their year on the starter plots, our new gardeners are now ‘battle-hardened’ and raring to move on to full-sized allotments as and when they become available.

It seems these former Starter Plotters are limitless in their energy, for rather than putting their feet up over the cold winter months to grab for the seed catalogues and dream, they have been busily clearing the little starter plots in preparation for more newcomers, so that now they are clean and tidy for the season ahead.

Caz and Michael Joyce are two such newbies, now fully

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