New crop of gardeners in plush London suburbs
Food prices and concerns about commercially grown produce are prompting a 'grow your own' culture.
By Mark Rice-Oxley
Kingston, England - Hosing down a row of perky-looking onion tops, Catherine Chu confesses she came late to gardening.

"I never even picked up a spade," she chuckles. "Now I'm completely obsessed."

But it's more than a hobby: Ms. Chu goes through the whole summer without having to buy vegetables from stores. Her allotment – a 50-by-20 foot public plot rented from the council – feeds her, her husband, and their daughter. She smiles at the thought: subsistence farming on the edge of Europe's biggest city.

Such green-fingered industry is becoming more and more common in Britain, where concerns over food prices and provenance is driving the "grow-your-own" (GYO) culture.

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