We are encouraging wildlife-friendly gardening on the allotment site.

Next year our branch competition will take account of wildlife friendly gardening as well as fruit and vegetable growing.

This year we are planning other activities. We are starting with some advice to everyone who'd like to make their garden wildlife friendly, together with a fun quiz and a game. And we’re hoping to launch a survey of wildlife so that plot holders and their children can look for creatures on your plot and on the site. We are going to put in a bid for funding to attract wildlife to the site by renewing and creating ponds, planting trees and hedges, and putting up a bird, bat and hedgehog boxes in the communal parts of the site.

Get advice on how to make a pond (Don't forget plotholders should ask first)

Here are Millar and Georgie admiring their new pond on Penny’s plot