When we sadly gave up our first allotment in 1990, (some time before we started again), I did a rough calculation on how much everything cost, but also looked at the benefits.
During the seven years we'd been down there, we'd made a financial profit of just £10.00 per year.
The effort, the fun, the disappointment, the number of red cabbages to feed the village - twice, the taste, the feel of a crunchy carrot, was just a fabulous 'something else'...