Gardening myths by Rob Wood (Trustee)

History & Heritage

On one of the first occasions I met Charlie Wesson, STAA’s oldest trustee, I was carrying a bundle of the last of the rhubarb on my plot and he told me quite firmly “They say if you eat all those you’re going to die”. What Charlie was referring to was the belief that eating rhubarb in late Spring or Summer was dangerous because of…

Sharing the fruits of our labour by Rob Wood (Trustee)

Gardening

I’ve always thought that the private ownership of land was inimical. As Leon Rosselson’s song ‘The World Turned Upside Down’ has it:  You poor take courage  You rich take care  This earth was made a common treasury  For everyone to share  That’s why I’ve always been keen to see the allotments as widely as accessible as possible, which is one of the threads…