Although they have long been a passion shared by allotment gardeners, until quite recently, sprout tops used to lie discarded in the fields after harvest, or were fed to livestock.
According to information obtained by allotment campaigners, a parade of secretaries of state between 2007 and 2013 turned down just four out of 199 applications by councils and other owners to close sites (a total of 128 were approved, while 67 were withdrawn or invalid).
The consideration will be settled by allotment of new shares and issuance of convertible bonds.
In events like this one, the chances of the competing animals are equalized, theoretically, by the allotments of weight, which are carefully calculated to bring all the runners together at the finish in a grand dead heat.
A 1837 watercolour of the Great Dust Heap at Kings Cross in London shows a black mountain range, a miniature model of the Alps, surrounded by urban allotments, slum housing and a smallpox hospital.
She has also launched a petition calling on the government to review the criteria by which allotments can be built over, and to tighten the law in favour of protecting them.
Seashells The crushed shells of cockles, oysters and scallops, thrown out by commercial fisheries, have long been used by thrifty allotment-holders for paths; they're also suitable as a mulch.
It is misleading to argue that the housing crisis can be solved by building on allotments, when alternative land is being banked by developers and supermarket giants.
By 1997, about 280,000 private farms had sprung up in Russia; but, for every 100 new farms registered, 96 were going bankrupt.Very small farms, created not by breaking up collective farms but by pooling family allotments, have done better.
