{"id":109424,"date":"2019-07-27T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/room-to-grow-how-allotment-life-can-be-the-best-therapy\/"},"modified":"2019-07-27T22:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T15:08:48","slug":"room-to-grow-how-allotment-life-can-be-the-best-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/room-to-grow-how-allotment-life-can-be-the-best-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Room to grow: how allotment life can be the best therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhen his wife became ill, Barney Norris found that growing his own food helped him through the traumaFor the past year I\u2019ve kept an allotment. Taking it over in a state of disrepair, some years after the death of the previous tenant, I\u2019ve cleared weeds, dug beds, planted apple trees, improvised panels for the greenhouse out of bits of transparent plastic conservatory roof, mowed grass and failed to fix the leak in the potting shed. In between all that, I\u2019ve grown vegetables.I\u2019ve always had an interest in gardening. My mother encouraged me and my brother and sister to keep a flower bed each when we were kids \u2013 mine, being in the shade next to where we buried the pets and underneath the tree house, never thrived, while my brother\u2019s was an absolute suntrap and full of delicious-smelling lavender. We all helped with the veg beds in the back garden, watering inadequately and massacring slugs, which I\u2019m not all that proud of, but must confess I enjoyed at the time. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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