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Express & Star 23 Sep 10
Vandals broke into an allotment site in Walsall and smashed a £3,000 toilet block “to pieces”. The thugs also stole some copper piping from the block.
Two sheds were also broken into in the attack on the Goscote Lane site…
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Express & Star 20 Sep 10
New housing developments in Walsall could soon be built with their own allotments as popularity for growing fruit and vegetables grows.
WHG is currently transforming a plot of disused land bordered by St Giles Road, Tyler Road and William Harper Road in Willenhall. Plans have been submitted to Walsall Council and are expected to be considered next month…
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Express & Star 8 Jul 10
Think you have got a weed problem?
They are more used to potatoes and peas, but pensioners at allotments in Wednesbury have currently got a more unusual and unexpected crop – cannabis plants.
A number of the plants have suddenly popped up at Barlow Road Allotments…
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Express & Star 17 May 10
Growers at a Walsall allotments hit by floods and vandalism were today calling for a £100,000 investment in the plots. Twelve people are on the waiting list for a pitch at the partly overgrown site near Junction 10 of the M6.
Gardeners say the 110-plot site in Reedswood, Walsall, is in desperate need of an overhaul including new secure fencing, maintenance of a brook through the grounds, rubbish clearance and more parking spaces…
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Express & Star 23 Sep 09
Pensioners stuck at home could earn up to £500 a year by allowing gardeners frustrated by lengthy waiting lists for allotments to rent out space in their gardens instead.
The I Dig Allotments scheme is the brainchild of Wombourne-born John Wilkes, aged 28, and is aimed at householders – mostly older people who are no longer able to tend their gardens…
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Express & Star 7 Aug 09
An allotment-holder in the Black Country has launched a national campaign to ban a weedkiller which has been blamed for tainting compost and destroying crops. John Shobbrook has now launched a petition to the Prime Minister to ban the substance, with more than 500 people signed up in less than a week…