Built, filled and mulched before you arrive. Seeds, plants, compost, tools and water included, and no council waiting list.
£24.99 a month plus £39.99 to join, or pay for the year and the twelfth month is free
Fourteen days to change your mind. Cancel within 14 days of paying and we refund you in full.
As seen in
Three steps, and the first one is the next thing on this page.
Open the plan below, tap into a block, choose the bed you want. Not a number somebody allocates you later. It is held while you are on the page, up to forty minutes.
Monthly, or pay for the year and get a month free. Five discounts apply when you join, including 25% for anybody working for the NHS.
Your bed is built, filled and mulched before you arrive. Tools, seeds, plants and compost are already on site. Bring a trowel if you like.
Not a number somebody allocates you afterwards. Every bed in the south field is on this plan, surveyed to the metre, and you pick the one you want: the corner by the hedge, the one nearest the water, the one next to your friend. The bright green ones are free. The faded ones have gone.
The same ground, drawn. Every block above is on it, in the same place.
Over five hundred public reviews
From people who rent a bed at a Roots site. Real, named, in their words.
St Nicholas Meadows sits in the Vale of Glamorgan, west of Cardiff. The pin is the gate, and the coordinates under it are the ones in our own records.
Gate location 51.465838, -3.299291. Parking on site.
A Couples is two beds side by side and a Group is three, so they are the same growing with more of it. Every one of these is marked out on the ground at a Roots site, and the counts come off the register as you read them. The Mini is sold out at St Nicholas.
3 x 12m
One grower who means it. An hour or two a week.
£24.99 a month
Included in the membership
6 x 12m
Two growers. Enough to eat from all season.
£43.74 a month
Included in the membership
9 x 12m
A family, or a few households who share the watering.
£62.49 a month
Included in the membership
None of it is an add on, and none of it is a starter pack that runs out in May.
No digging a plot out of a field. It is built, filled and mulched before you get the keys.
Posted out as each sowing window opens, so you are never guessing what goes in when.
For the things that are miserable from seed. Collected from the site.
Not to the gate. To your bed.
Help yourself, all year.
Spades, forks, hoes, barrows. You can turn up empty handed.
Troughs through the site, marked in blue on the plan. The checkout tells you how far your bed is from the nearest one.
On site, not on a phone line. Ryan runs St Nicholas.
From first sowing to winter beds, for people who have never grown anything.
Seed swaps, no dig demos, long table dinners, and the Grand Opening Party on 17 and 18 October.
West Cardiff sits in its own regional price band, so the figures on this page are the St Nicholas ones. Photographs are of existing Roots sites.
Twenty six varieties a year, from six seed houses, free to claim from your own site. Heritage vegetables, herbs, and flowers the bees come for.
Plus plug plants delivered to site each spring, for the things that are miserable from seed.
An allotment that falls apart the fortnight you go away is not much of a gift to yourself. These are the real screens, not a mock up.
The news feedPosts from your own site and from every Roots site, in one place.
Your growing yearFifty two weeks, each with its lesson, its jobs and what is on at the site that weekend.
This week on the patchOne video, a checklist you tick off, and the Saturday social that goes with it.
Your plotYour own bed, drawn. What is in it, what to sow next, and when.
Tell the app you are away and your patch manager waters, picks and keeps on top of it while you are gone. You come back to a bed, not a jungle.
Your patch, your site's feed, the people on the next row, and what to sow this week. Twenty one courses in it, from first sowing to putting beds to bed for winter.
Not a phone line. Ryan runs St Nicholas and is there in the week. If something is eating your brassicas he will tell you what and what to do about it.
No contract to the end of time. Monthly rolls and you can stop it with thirty days' notice, no reason needed and nobody to persuade. Inside fourteen days of paying you can cancel outright and we refund you in full.
A hundred and forty five lessons in the app, taught by Charles Dowding and the Roots team. Not an upsell and not a trial. They are in the membership from the day you join.
Both sit on the same site. One of them has gone.
Sold outAll 46 went within a day of release. A 6 x 2.8m tunnel of your own with the compost already in it, and a 6 x 3m allotment outside the front.
£40 a month when they are available
The fastest anything at St Nicholas has sold. If more go in, the waiting list hears first.
Your own coop and run, with automatic doors, feed and water, and fox proof fencing. You bring the birds and we can point you at local breeders.
£150 deposit today, then £55 a month
The runs open in Spring 2027. They are built over the winter, so the deposit holds your patch with your name on it and the £55 a month does not start until the day the run opens. The deposit is the only fee before then.
Roots sites across England, in the season they were photographed. St Nicholas is the first in Wales and it is built the same way.
A Roots site is not a car park with soil in it. This is some of what runs through a year.
Charles Dowding on no dig, a DJ, coffee vans, patch managers down from sites all over the country, and games for the kids. Free, no ticket, just turn up.
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Everyone brings what they grew. Cooked on site, eaten on site.
No dig demos, pruning, composting, and a lot of spare seedlings changing hands.
Taken off the monthly price at the checkout, before anything is charged. One discount applies at a time, and they stack with paying ahead.
Anybody working for the NHS, any role. Not just clinical.
Police, fire and ambulance, and anyone holding a Blue Light Card.
Any full-time course, any age.
Universal Credit, Pension Credit or ESA, in your name.
Any disability or long-term health condition. Tell us what you need and we will sort it. Please do not send medical records.
A Starter allotment at £24.99 a month is £18.74 with the NHS discount. Paying ahead saves more again, and you choose that at the checkout.
Patches here are not sold online any more. Come and walk the ground with the patch manager, ask anything, and take one if it is right for you.
No card, no deposit, no obligation. We will email you a confirmation.
🌙The 17:30 slot is not listed: sunset at St Nicholas is 16:59 on 26 October and 16:10 by the end of November, so an evening tour would be walked in the dark. It comes back when the clocks go forward in March.
