With more and more people interested in growing their own vegetables and fruit, the demand for allotments has never been so high. With the advent of trendy green television programmes that extol the virtues of “growing your own” more people have contacted their local authority about the availability and ownership of an allotment.

One such place where this can be seen is Cardiff, where 800 people are currently on the waiting list for an allotment on one of the city’s 27 sites. The Vale of Glamorgan has also seen such problems with 290 residents on a three year waiting list before they may get the chance to rent a plot.

Councils are supposed to provide enough land for people to want to start an allotment but this current trend of wanting to ‘eat green’ shows that they are evidently not doing enough for their tax payers.

Terry Walton, BBC Radio 2’s allotment expert has stated that more young people now have, or want an allotment because they are fed up with increasing supermarket prices and want to eat healthy organic produce.