Plots are coming along nicely with plenty of people out and about tending their crops.It’s bit of a novelty growing your own food in the UK, we used to grow a lot of our own fruit and vegetables in the post war years but it fell out of fashion as supermarkets introduced cheap and convenient food. When the oil runs out, which may be fairly soon if BP can’t stop the leak, we will all be growing our own plots once again, at least those of us who can remember how.