Allotment Film - Grow Your Own
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 1:38 pm
It's finally out on release nationwide on 15 June!
I've been sent synopses of the plot; the short one goes like this:
Grow Your Own takes us through one year of growing, pruning and harvesting in the
Little Eden that is Blacktree Road Allotments.
Some people keep allotments because they like the taste of fresh vegetables.
Some go there for the company.
Some of them are looking for love.
Some of them are looking for the perfect manure.
Some go there to escape from their marriages.
One of them is there to escape from something much, much worse.
A bouquet of freshly picked stories and fruity characters.
I'm not going to put the whole of the long synopsis on here, I'm probably not supposed to anyway
but here's the first paragraph which to my mind gives a fair indication of what to expect and it sounds GREAT 
It's Christmas time and men all over the country are banished from their beloved allotments by the winter weather. Stuck at home, they are desperate to do a bit of gardening. For example, there’s Charlie who plants his tomato seeds on Boxing Day and puts them on the TV to keep warm, much to his wife's irritation. Or Eddie, who’d rather be sawing up a bit of shelving for his allotment than join the Christmas celebrations. And then there’s Kenny, whose wife has long since left him, though he never mentions it in public, who loves a good gardening programme but gets infuriated by TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh's views on manure. These three are just a few of the characters who own plots on the Blacktree Road allotments, an oasis of green in a bleak urban landscape—next to a gas tank and overlooking the less-than-picturesque docks.
And before you ask, yes there are ladies in it too...
I've already managed to match these characters to people I know
I've been sent synopses of the plot; the short one goes like this:
Grow Your Own takes us through one year of growing, pruning and harvesting in the
Little Eden that is Blacktree Road Allotments.
Some people keep allotments because they like the taste of fresh vegetables.
Some go there for the company.
Some of them are looking for love.
Some of them are looking for the perfect manure.
Some go there to escape from their marriages.
One of them is there to escape from something much, much worse.
A bouquet of freshly picked stories and fruity characters.
I'm not going to put the whole of the long synopsis on here, I'm probably not supposed to anyway
but here's the first paragraph which to my mind gives a fair indication of what to expect and it sounds GREAT
It's Christmas time and men all over the country are banished from their beloved allotments by the winter weather. Stuck at home, they are desperate to do a bit of gardening. For example, there’s Charlie who plants his tomato seeds on Boxing Day and puts them on the TV to keep warm, much to his wife's irritation. Or Eddie, who’d rather be sawing up a bit of shelving for his allotment than join the Christmas celebrations. And then there’s Kenny, whose wife has long since left him, though he never mentions it in public, who loves a good gardening programme but gets infuriated by TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh's views on manure. These three are just a few of the characters who own plots on the Blacktree Road allotments, an oasis of green in a bleak urban landscape—next to a gas tank and overlooking the less-than-picturesque docks.
And before you ask, yes there are ladies in it too...
I've already managed to match these characters to people I know
