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• The Warwick District Council allotments page extols the virtues of allotment gardening and has a comprehensive list of local allotments and how to contact them.


• The Milverton New Allotments Association has a page of Helpful Hints and Tips listing local sources of manure, straw and compost bins and explaining how to deal with perennial weeds like couch grass, dock and butter burr.


• The "Allotments UK" Web site tells you everything you could possible want to know about allotment gardening and has a very active discussion forum.


• The Allotments Regeneration Initiative (ARI) is a partnership aiming to
  • promote and support innovation and good practice in allotments management through technical support and advice, site visits, information materials and networking events
  • project a positive and active image of allotments
  • raise the profile of allotments with the Government, local authorities and the public.
It has raised £800,000 for these purposes and invites bids for significant grants.


• We are members of the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners. It aims "to help all enjoy the recreation of gardening and so promote their health, education and community fellowship" by
  • encouraging the formation of gardening associations
  • seeking to safeguard their interest through improved legislation
  • advising and assisting generally on all problems that face the amateur gardener.

• The BBC's take on Gardening has depth, breadth and seductive presentation - a cornucopia for green fingers. Try accessing its complete Gardening Archive.


• The Royal Horticultural Society, perhaps best known for its Chelsea Flower Show and its Britain in Bloom competition, has 340,000 members helping it to fulfil its aim "to protect Britain's gardening heritage and help gardeners everywhere". The site has loads of advice about gardening, including a searchable databases of plants and of gardens.


• The Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA), based at Ryton Organic Gardens on the east side of Coventry, is a charity dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food. Adopt a vegetable, discourage pests and weeds without chemicals, turn "muck into magic" —  everything for the environmentally-conscious gardener.