Grow Your Own 
Synopsis
A group of refugees are given plots in a Liverpool allotment, which initially leads to tension between themselves and the other allotment owners. The two groups of gardeners have to learn to get on with each other and the original allotment owners begin to slowly warm to the refugees. Gentle and touching comedy starring Eddie Marsan (SIXTY SIX), Benedict Wong (SUNSHINE), and Omid Djalili (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN – AT WORLD’S END).
This was on last Friday night (after Gardener’s World) and since I was reading a book about allotments, I decided to watch it, plus also I like Omid Djalili, although he wasn’t in it all that much. As usual with these things it’s all about the people and not about the situation, which in this case was an allotment in Liverpool. There wasn’t really much about the plants, it was more about people trying to fit in and get along with some other people that were pretty set in their ways and band together to fight a common enemy, in this case, the phone company who wanted the land. I did see some really interesting melons that one of the Thai gardeners planted until I realised that it was actually a spaghetti squash, which in Thailand is called a Shark’s Fin Melon! So there you go, learned something new. Disappointing there wasn’t much about gardening or allotments in the film, and I don’t think it was filmed on an actual allotment, probably a set.
