the bumper crop of fruit and veg grown by the dedicated allotment gardeners each year was the talk of the town , and garnered prize after prize each year .
the haul of produce was even enough to keep some growers self-sufficient .
but now the gardeners are at war with their council after they were moved to new allotments so their old prize-winning plots can be bulldozed to make way for a car park and five-a-side football pitches .