small gardens

Back to my usual gripe about writers and broadcasters on gardening not understanding about small gardens.

In the Permaculture magazine which arrived yesterday there is an article on "How Britain can feed itself".

It says the "average" size of a British garden is 190m2 (2000ft2). Leaving aside the possibility that large gardens of several acres haven't scewed* the figures, what a mean average usually shows it the half-way mark - so probably about half of British gardens are smaller than this.

My garden of 1080ft2 is just over half this "average" size and most people I know living nearby have gardens of under half the size of my garden.

And of course, the problem with small urban gardens is that only a small proportion of them get enough sun to grow food!

*I've just tried to look up this word to check the spelling, but can't find it so have obviously spelt it completely wrong. I also used the word in my letter (on similar lines to this post) to the magazine. Oh dear!