The joy of a new allotment to grow vegetables and get in contact with Mother Nature

Since the COVID pandemic, allotments have been very popular in the UK, and I have always dreamt of having one of my own where I could go to plant my favourite vegetables and fruits. Unfortunately, in that period, I was living in Bristol, and I could not get one because there were long queues. Once I arrived in Newcastle, my life was so busy and concentrated on dealing with a new job and a new love story that, for a while, i forgot my ambitions about a new allotment.

Last year, my partner bought a new house in a horrible place called Welford Avenue, thinking of transforming the huge corner garden into an allotment. The project dropped down after a couple of months when we realised that the horrible house was situated on a main road full of cars and pollution, and the soil was really dry and not good for growing vegetables. Furthermore, we were surrounded by such rude and arrogant people that we thought to stop growing our vegetables because they could easily steel them .

I still remember when one of our jealous neighbours threw her plastic bottles into our elegant pond because she was jealous of our style of life and love.

New home

This year, we finally found a very nice house to buy with a private rear garden, full of mature…