A PLEA by Lydney Town Council for anyone interested in taking an allotment on the Mount Pleasant site has fallen on deaf ears.
Posters around the town giving six weeks for keen gardeners to apply for half-plots have drawn a response of ... zero.
Meanwhile there is a waiting list for plots on South Road.
Lydney town clerk Jean Ramsden said the Mount Pleasant plots were closed some time ago because of under-use and because the town hoped it might sell the land to raise capital for a new indoor swimming pool at Whitecross.
This facility which has since been completed.
However no sale resulted and the amenity committee agreed "consideration would be given to reopening the site should there be sufficient genuine interest".
Mrs Ramsden said: "It looks as though the Mount Pleasant plots will not reopen, although this is for the council to decide.
"People have had long enough to apply."
The decision to look at reopening the plots came through a complaint that there was a growing waiting list – now six applications – for the South Road plots.
Allotment holders here may be in for a shock – the committee said the present £9 half-plot annual rent "was not realistic" and a rise between £26 and £52 is under consideration.
"These are not unrealistic when you look at rents for allotments in other towns," said Mrs Ramsden.
"Especially when pensioners even get a 50 per cent reduction on the £9 rent at present."
Keen grower Frank Trigg, 92, said he could not understand why there was a waiting list when some of the plots at South Road appeared to be abandoned.
And on the question of price rises he said: "They'll never get it. There's a few worried about having to pay what they do anyway. They'll drive people away, and it will become another building site I suppose."