Anyway … Obama is digging up his lawns at the White House so why do you become an idiot suggesting this for number 10?? Or is that kind of idiotory becoming pandemic ?

Ed, you-wanker-you. Stop raping your tastebuds with probably too much coffee and tabacco. Seasonal fruit and vegetables are not only environmental friendlier, they do taste better as well. Every chef will cook seasonal goods because they like to start with the best produce. Bio is not necessarily better but at least local bio got the chance to ripen completely before harvesting and that’ s why you get better taste (and they are using other varieties as well, the ones that are not chosen just because they transport easily without damage and grow quick to identical sizes, all good qualities if you want to sell easily to ignorant people but where is the flavor??). There is a time for asparagus and there is a time for tomatoes. Getting everything you want when YOU want it, makes you not only a spoiled idiot but very much so an über-idiot that has missed a lot of opportunities in his life to taste good things. I invite you to taste your it’s-december-lets-treat-myself-with-a-nice-watermelon with summer melons that are just about to fall of the vine (or even better : that fell), and when you’re in the greenhouse anyway take any tomato variety you want and than go back to your cheap-year-round-tasteless-supermarket-kügeln. You’re probably feasting on your watery strawberries for weeks (do you ever stop buying them ?), well go to an allotment and ask them if you can try one (say someone dared you, they’ll give away their best); borrow a carrot while you’re at it (don’t mind that bit of sand you’re pollishing your teeth with chemicals daily) if you don’t have grandparents with a garden you have probably forgotten what they should taste like as well. Look after your planning because you’ll probably stay there for a while… (and tell your relatives that you go there so they will not be alarmed when you don’t come home)

Don’t look down on people just because (you think) you have a higher degree, some of you proved that you are lacking at least some skills.

If you’re not too old not all is lost, if not I’m sorry to say that you wasted much of your time on earth … and now of you go, you still have some time to play your videogames before you go to bed (yes, little bear is already on your pillow, mommie found it under the bed)

I don’t normally follow your drivel (even on The Register which I read from time to time) but I happened on this by chance while searching for a particular Monty Don item.

I realise you’re an idiot yourself, but if your other readers also can’t see the value in a country being close to self sufficient in basic commodities like food, once agribusiness stops being practical because intensive agriculture is unaffordable, and UK plc has no money to pay for imports, readers will be going hungry before too long.

Golf courses often make ideal allotment sites. Some of them have even been built on former allotment sites.

Shame The Other Steve is so close, and yet so far away from “getting it”. Does “Dig for victory” mean anything to him, I wonder?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2263529
“Between 1939 and 1945 imports of food were halved and the acreage of British land used for food production increased by 80%. It was estimated that over 1.4 million people had allotments by 1945. … the home population never ate so well as during and after the war … thanks to the strict rationing of shop-bought goods, and the amount of fresh vegetables that people ate.”

Toodle pip, see you on the dark side.

Like listens to like.

Do we really want to be eating food produced on old industrial land? How much to test the soil, and remove any contaminants found?

How many businesses actually own the land their office, shop or factory is situated on? Will the landlord approve?

Any what is this nonsense of seasonality? I want to eat specific foods when I desire them, not when the bloke down the road is capable of harvesting them.

Daft idea.

As opposed to the vegetable patch inside I guess.

After seeing what he has done to the economy, would you let GB loose on defenceless vegetables?

Nah! Too damn much of the stuff just layin’ around.

Go for computer chips and semiconductors!

Because he’s on the telly a lot and the BBC, in its ineffable wisdom, considers him such an eminent thinker that he is chosen as a panellist on Question Time (cf your favourite economic commentator Will Hutton).