Otley gardeners are vowing to fight on - despite uncertainty over the future of their headquarters.

The Otley Gardeners Association shed - where members sell seeds, fertilisers and everything for the garden - is on the site of the new Sainbury's supermarket.

And despite uncertainty over its future and when they will have to move out - they are determined to carry on and even to expand to cater for an ever-increasing interest in home grown vegetables.

Committee chairman John Cooper said uncertainty over the building had meant the association was reluctant to invest in repairs.

Although Leeds City Council, which owns the shed, has vowed to come up with alternative accommodation - possibly a building in Courthouse Street, behind the former library, nothing can be settled until Sainsbury's moves onto the Bondgate site.

"Although Leeds City Council have promised to provide a shed on a new site, this cannot happen until the programme of re-development is more certain.

"We've heard Sainsbury's aren't going to start for at least 18 months and a lot of people don't think we exist any more.

But despite the uncertainty, Mr Copper said the future looked bright for Otley gardeners and allotment holders.

The association has more than 200 members, including half who have allotments.

"If we're going, we don't want to spend any more money on the shed, but it is beginning to look a bit shabby.

"We do have lots of ideas and we want to reach more people. There are big waiting lists for most of the allotment sites in Otley and more people are getting interested all the time.

"When the future is more certain, we look forward to branching out into becoming a gardening information exchange as well as providing goods.

"Our aim is to make gardening and healthy vegetable growing available to a wide range of people, " he said.

For the short term, the shed will remain where it is - behind the Park Lane Otley Centre, Bondgate, for at least another year.

It will be open every Saturday, from Saturday, February 4 from 9.30am to 12.30pm.

For an annual fee of £2, members can buy all sorts of vegetable seeds and products at cheaper prices than gardening centres and supermarkets.

Mr Cooper added: "It's a good facility and we surprised that more people don't use it. There's a better and cheaper selection than supermarkets, and friendly, helpful advice."