Allotment gardening is a wonderful leisure activity which gives great rewards with a bit of excercise.
John has aquired an allotment garden on Dundee's City Road Allotment site.
In his first year he managed to get bumper crops with a wealth of fruit and flowers even although he had a late start.

John started clearing rubbish, brambles, old fence lines, rubble, rocks and a lot of broken glass in March, then put in new paths surfaced in bark chips. Cultivations in March and April included digging in ample bags of Discovery garden compost which Dundee city council make from the towns gardening waste. It comes ready to use and is quite cheap. It is perfect for organic gardening, breaks up clay soils and adds humus to sandy soils helping to retain moisture in our dry summers.

It certainly helped John's crops of vegetables, fruit and flowers to grow in abundance.