GARDENERS are being asked to become historians this month at a garden centre in Thornbury.

Wyevale Garden Centre is asking all its customers to help collect memorabilia about allotments and growing your own to be part of a gardening exhibition being held in London.

To mark 100 years of grow your own the Garden Museum in London wants to gather photographs, posters and diaries from around the country associated with gardening.

Tom Yates, manager at the Wyevale Garden Centre, said: "The Garden Museum is looking for material to be lent or donated to the exhibition by gardeners throughout the country and we thought visitors to our two garden centres might like to get involved.

"It is looking for material that 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."

Mary Guyatt, the Garden Museum's curator, 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 1970’s oil crisis.

"It will look at today's enthusiasm for growing vegetables and raise the question is this just a passing fad, or is it something that is embedded deep in the psyche of people in Britain?"

To contact the museum email info@gardenmuseum.org.uk or call 020 7401 8865.

The Good Life exhibition will run at the Garden Museum from October 2009 until February 2010.