KESTON Garden Centre is supporting an appeal to find photographs and other items which could be included in a museum’s exhibition to celebrate 100 years of grow your own.

The centre in Oakley Road, Keston, is encouraging residents to look for photographs, posters and diaries, which could be lent or given to the Garden Museum in London.

Keston Garden Centre manager, Mark Bosworth, said: “The exhibition is looking for material which illustrates gardeners’ involvement with vegetable growing for a forthcoming exhibition on 100 years of growing your own.

“We are asking our customers to get in touch with the museum if they have something they think might be useful for the display.”

Deputy manager, Kelly Major, added: “I think growing your own food is very good and it gets children involved and realising where their food comes from.”

In order to support the appeal the centre is holding an allotments weekend on August 15 and 16, which will also tie in with National Allotments Week, which goes on until August 16.

Mr Bosworth added: “We are hosting this weekend to give people interested in growing their own fruit and vegetables free advice on how to set up their own allotment or veg patch in their back garden.”

The centre also has information in store telling customers how they can start to grow their own food and how to setup an allotment.

The Garden Museum’s curator, Mary Guyatt, said: “Our forthcoming exhibition The Good Life, explores 100 years of ‘growing your own’, through the good times and more difficult times such as the World Wars and the 1970s oil crisis.”

Anyone with photographs, diaries, posters, newsletters, recipes, packaging or any other objects should get in touch by emailing info@gardenmuseum.org.uk or calling 020 7401 8865, with a brief description and photograph of your items.

The exhibition will run at the museum from October until February 2010.

To find out more about the allotment weekend or any other events at Keston Garden Centre, call 01689 859 419.