Featuring everything from oversized marrows and dye plants to pampered rabbits and bees to allotments as performing art, along with the amazing and usually eccentric people behind them, this title is a humorous celebration of the diversity, industry and comedy that pervades the modern allotment community.

Profiling the unique obsessions and preoccupations of over 40 British allotmenteers, young and old, this book dispels the myth that there's no more to allotments than home-grown vegetables, compost, weeding and an over-abundance of tomato seedlings. Featuring everything from oversized marrows and dye plants to pampered rabbits and bees to allotments as performance art, along with the amazing and usually eccentric people behind them, this book is a humourous celebration of the diversity, industry and comedy that pervades the modern allotment community. Each story is accompanied by revealing photographs of the allotmenteer and his or her "patch".