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Steve D Member Since: 19 Jan 2013 Location: Essexshire Posts: 4109 ![]() ![]() |
Anyone got one? Been waiting for about a year and I’ve just signed up for a half plot. It’s about 15 metres x 7 metres. Someone’s given it up. It’s got a couple of trained out fanned Apple trees full of fruit, a secure tin shed, 3 compost bins, a couple of rainwater butts, one 'box' with blackcurrant bushes, 1 patch full of potatoes and about 5 other boxes. By boxes I mean areas sectioned off with cut scaffold planks. £26.50 per year and a whole list of rules and regulations. The head honcho said I’ve obviously got to clear and weed it where it’s been neglected and if it gets to next March and I’ve not got it ready, I'm out! There’s a secure entrance to it between a couple of houses and it’s surrounded by a quad of houses so hopefully fairly safe. Looks a vey big site - I’d estimate that there’s about 60 - 80 full size plots maybe. Seems a very well run allotment society with a store onsite that sell all sorts of fertilisers, netting, compost, home made jams, local honey (a couple of owners have bee hives) and they have a tea urn there so can probably cadge a cuppa when it’s open. Quite looking forward to it.
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Yorky Bob Member Since: 28 Apr 2015 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 4561 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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chicken george Member Since: 06 Dec 2007 Location: N. Yorks Posts: 13292 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
200 acre allotment |
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Yorky Bob Member Since: 28 Apr 2015 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 4561 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
We will have to agree to disagree about Roundup CG. That's your livelihood, I grow for the taste and being organic but I do loose a lot of crop to achieve that. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
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chicken george Member Since: 06 Dec 2007 Location: N. Yorks Posts: 13292 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Roundup is for killing untidy areas when reinventing an allotment.
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Yorky Bob Member Since: 28 Apr 2015 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 4561 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Commercial farming is a must have, we can agree on that CG.
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Yorky Bob Member Since: 28 Apr 2015 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 4561 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Parking Jimboland, don't ever, ever mention parking. |
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JulesK Member Since: 07 Dec 2014 Location: Ceredigion. Posts: 1673 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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768will Member Since: 08 Jan 2012 Location: South Devon Posts: 202 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Don't have an official allotment just part of a field (horses have the rest)' Agree with CG ref Roundup but if you keep on top of things probably won't be required, best friend is a hoe.
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Steve D Member Since: 19 Jan 2013 Location: Essexshire Posts: 4109 ![]() ![]() |
Today, me and the wife have been to visit our new allotment. Only £26.50 per year but already this morning I’ve spent £53 on a spade, fork and watering can. Looks like we’re in for the most expensive fruit and veg of our lifetime! It’s been well neglected so she started clearing it and I started digging it over. Came home with enough spuds to make our tea tonight which was a bonus. Got into trouble with the wife when I shut her in the windowless tool shed - she doesn’t like enclosed spaces since her Dad rolled her up in a carpet for laugh when she was 5. Established fruit already on there are a couple of cooking apple trees, an eating apple tree, a blackcurrant section and a raspberry section. Got a good bit of work ahead of us before we get it ready for planting and already I’m cream crackered! Apparently at 57 and 60, we're the 'young blood’!
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Yorky Bob Member Since: 28 Apr 2015 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 4561 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Good God ! You should see what a bare allotment could be like on our Parish plots, seriously count your blessings. I do have to agree though that start up costs can be high. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
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Yorky Bob Member Since: 28 Apr 2015 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 4561 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Not sure if this gives the right view but I am on the shed roof with a yard of plot behind me, The 2 Apple trees past the flowers are before another growing area then its a greenhouse and then another area of flowers 2 or so yards across.
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Steve D Member Since: 19 Jan 2013 Location: Essexshire Posts: 4109 ![]() ![]() |
That’s a proper allotment!
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Yorky Bob Member Since: 28 Apr 2015 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 4561 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
When I was playing at (well it was all about survival etc) there was a book around call Food for Free. A bit of a bible as with some fungi its curtains. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
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