Comments on: Protecting the Allotment – Help Someone!

By: John

John — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:32:40 +0000

Well if they do win, bury some asbestos on the plot, wait until they build on it then tip off the environment people. Shh, I never said that!

By: compostqueen

compostqueen — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:46:09 +0000

I covered much of my plot cos dint fancy glyphos. Don’t regret it cos my plot is clearing while I pootle away doing a bed at a time. At my own pace.

Our plots are in the process of being flogged off to a developer but not if the lotty folks have their way. There’s a war on! We hope we’re winning!

By: John

John — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:00:22 +0000

Ali – all us boyz love our toyz. There’s only one thing better than a petrol powered rotovator, that’s a diesel machine!

Seriously though, I know what you mean. Perhaps you’ll be advising them next year. Try ‘you could save money by doing this instead of spraying with that’ Us old geezers love saving money.

And if you’re after advice – try the allotment chat forums, there’s some really good growers on there. We do try and help.

By: ali

ali — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:31:02 +0000

I do agree we need to keep everything fully occupied and productive for our own sake. But I do object to some of the old geezers on my site – they might grow some stuff better than me but many of them seem obsessed with burning stuff, spraying with goodness knows what, using their petrol burning machines instead of a fork, and building ever more complex and large structures. I may be a relative novive and battling with weeds but I do at least have a passion for the actual plants! All the advice I seem to get is…. you want to spray that with xxxx.

By: John

John — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:07:43 +0000

Not normal on our site – different councils have their own methods.

I’m certain that allotments are considered a waste of valuable building land by many officials – my point is that a half empty site is more at risk than a full site.

By: caroline

caroline — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:50:40 +0000

The allotment site nearest my home is super and has little huts, sheds and other shakier structures some of which are human. A lot of these are old men and women who just want to pop down to their allotment and keep doing what they’ve done for years. It has full occupancy despite prospective allotment keepers having to battle the most obnoxious council official to secure a tenancy on any rarely available plot. I fear that these allotment keepers are short-changed by the council who secretly intend to oust them if a better offer comes along. This is because they get a new contract of tenancy to sign each year. Is that normal?