Sunday 21 June 2009

A good Allotment site link, I hope you find it useful.

http://www.allotment.org.uk/articles/Allotment-History.php.

Here is a link for a brilliant allotment site, I hope you all find it useful, it seems to cover lots of aspects including the 'History' of allotments.

4 comments:

Prospero said...

Thanks for the link, Maureen. Just a few more questions:

1) How far is your allotment from your house?
2) Why do you have an allotment and a vegetable garden at your house?
3) How big is your allotment? (250 square meters, as per the article on allotments, is huge!)

I don't mean for this to sound like something out of the Spanish Inquisition, nor do I mean to pry into your affairs - it's just that I find the subject very interesting.

So, having said that - answer away as best you can!

Maureen said...

1) My allotment plot is about 8-10 minutes in the car from my house or 20 mins walk.
2) I don't have vegetables growing in my garden. I just have flowers, shrubs,trees and paved areas, plus my summerhouse. I didn't want to give any of that up, so that's why I decided to rent the allotment.
3) My plot was originally 126 square metres, but then I was given a concrete hard-standing that was previously used for cars,and is adjacent to my plot which I now have my shed on. This freed up more space for planting, so I'm not sure how big it is now.

I don't mind you asking. Our allotment tradition must seem pretty strange to you. I hope this makes it clearer for you.

Prospero said...

Thanks Maureen. I get it now! And you are right, the concept seems a little strange. Land is so scarce here that such a thing would not be possible (plus the fact that most of the best land has already been turned into golf courses).

I was going to post a picture of my corn, but we've had so much rain and clouds that I though I wouldn't make it out of the garden (not for the clouds, but for the mud).

Will try to send one up on Friday.

Molly and Fergus said...

Great link Maureen, thank you. Clare