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My husband would agree with you about the hard graft, Pete. We make quite a good team usually in that he does all the hard graft, and I ‘potter’ around with the seed sowing and plant raising, harvesting and cooking. He’s not a fan of no-dig because digging is one of his favourite pastimes, so he digs his plot over every year, and when he’s run out of empty soil to turn, he comes over to my plot and clears the paths between the beds. We haven’t got down to the allotments as often as usual over the past year due to family commitments, and so he has been kept busy on his own plot – that’s why my paths have become overgrown, and that’s why I was trying to find an easy option …