Peter Whiting, winner of last year's Garden News Allotment of the Year Competition, and also Chairman of Longbarrow Allotments in Bournemouth who came second in the Kitchen Garden Britain's Best Allotment Site Competition will be appearing with Joe Swift in the BBC Gardeners World special screening on April 11th 2008.

This will be the pilot edition for a regular feature to be  included in their programme.  Joe is starting an allotment from scratch, and the programme will follow him through the year, and through the ups and downs of allotment gardening.