One of the benefits of roof or windowsill gardens must be being pretty confident about what's lurking in your plantings. Not likely to encounter snails or slugs or beetles or.... human remains. Which is what a plucky allotmenteer in Walthamstow dug up last week. To be more specific, a human skull. Police are now running forensic tests on the skull and treating the plot as a crime scene so we wait for more news......

Londonist Takes a Walk on the Wilder Side What is it? Formerly derelict land, King Henry's Walk Garden is now a thriving, award-winning, organic community garden and peaceful green space. Where is it? Tucked away behind Balls Pond Road, N1 within walking distance of Essex Road, Canonbury, Newington Green and Dalston - Mildmay Ward - if you can find it. Why has it tickled our fancy? We got a leaflet through the door about it,......

With waiting lists for London allotments spiralling into 6 years or more, the new report Growing Round the Houses, from food and farming charity, Sustain and the Women's Environmental Network, is very welcome. It advocates planning communal food growing into social housing and transforming unused estate ground into fertile kitchen gardens with huge growbags. Which is a lovely idea, of course, as long as there's genuine community buy in, the local kids don't vandalise......