` Aminopyralid is back – after several years of disasters for growers and allotment holders with polluted manures from farms that have used this powerful grassland selective herbicide, the suspension placed on the sale and use of this chemical produced by Dow Agrosciences, has been lifted – visit www.manurematters.co.uk for more on this issue. If you are buying horse manure where the animals have been grazing on treated grass, test your manure before spreading it on your plot.
` Can you dig it? This is the title of a new report just published by the New Local Government Network about the availability of land for allotments across Britain – 1% of landowners own 70% of the land in the UK and the report is trying to encourage larger land-owners such as the royal family to release some of it for allotments for ordinary people. Almost every local authority in the country has a waiting list for its allotments. Visit www.nlgn.org.uk to download a free copy of this very interesting report or call NLGN on 020 7357 0051.
