Should we get an allotment?

[nearlyreadytopop]

I've just seen an advert for local allotments (£75) per year and I'm seriously tempted.
I have a little greenhouse in our garden and DS and I have grown tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and then spuds and a couple of pea plants in large pots. Due to size and trees in the garden we don't have scope for anything else. So we are beginners- how hard is it to have an allotment? In my head the weather will be great, I can grown seeds in the greenhouse and then plant out. But how much work does it actually take?
Also when choosing an allotment is there anything I should look out for?

You may have had a lucky escape. We had a plot with a similar set up to the one you described, just a farmers field with fairly poor soil. No water supply, no written contract and after a year he doubled the rent! We didn't stay and were lucky enough to get a plot on our council run allotment three years ago. We were on the waiting list for just over 2 years but did do quite a bit of polite pestering which I think speeded things up a bit. Good luck with your search and carry on growing veg.