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Allotment Sites Information

Allotment Sites - pages about allotment sites

See how other allotment sites do things. From inner-city allotment sites to country sites, We can all learn from each other and how people grow in different areas. 

Firs Estate Allotments, Derby

This is an inner city site in the Stockbrook Street area of Derby. We have 52 plots on 6.5 acres of land. We are in a sheltered position on a south-facing slope with good loamy soil.

Black Lane Allotments, Leamington Spa

Allotments on the edge of a golf course and council estate at the top of Campion Hill, Leamington - please have a look.

Ashfield Allotments

Ashfield Allotments - Winner of The Best Kept Allotment Site two years running. Based in Knotty Ash, Liverpool.

Gravel Pit Allotments

We are a small group of residents in the parish of Yapham cum Meltonby in the East Riding of Yorkshire with a communal desire to grow our own produce and by developing an allotment site to bring some vibrancy to our local community.

Barnes, Sheen and Mortlake Allotment Society

Community allotmenting website with humour and information. Newsletters, inspiring pictures and gossip. "Really one of the funniest allotment web sites I have visited" - John

Harpers Lane Allotments

Harpers Lane Allotments website. We hope to provide a valuable resource for all our plot-holders and to give the general public an idea of what goes on at Harpers Lane, Bolton. Please feel free to browse our site, you are most welcome.

Willingale Road Allotments

Website for Debden Horticultural and Allotment Society at Willingale Road, Loughton, Essex.

www.harlowallotments.btck.co.uk

Harlow Allotments are in Thatto Heath St Helens Merseyside.

(SATA)southby allotment tenants association

allotment based in Newbury

Western Road Allotments Society

The online home of Western Road Allotments Society. Western Road is in Merton, SW London. We have photos, an interactive map, news, photo gallery and much more.

Roper Avenue Allotments

Roper Avenue Allotments are a small and friendly site of enthusiastic 'grow your own-ers'. We have 14 plots and a community tea shed. The site has 2 open days a year, on Mothers day and Fathers day when all are made very welcome. Why not pay us a visit?

Shipton Allotment Society

A new start! Follow us as a new interpid band of allotmenteers head for 'dig day' on 01/01/2010.

Old Trafford Amateur Gardeners Society

Website of Old Trafford Amateur Gardeners' Society who help Trafford MBC manage and maintain Seymour Grove Allotment Site.

Baildon Horticultural Society

Based in Baildon, Shipley, West Yorkshire, the Society provides over 140 plots for local allotmenteers. The web site lists the Society's activities including the its sales huts and Annual Show and aims to encourage more local members to join.

Leek Allotment and Gardeners Association

A web site for Allotmenters and Gardeners in and around Leek Staffs. New members are always welcome to join us. Very informal and informative.

Nutgrove Allotments

Nutgrove Allotments is in Thatto Heath St Helens. We have 23 plots with plotholders of a wide range of ages, experience and ability. We are making major changes and improvements on site. We are looking into self management in the future.

Sutton Allotments

Sutton Allotments, Vegetable, Fruit and Herb Gardening

Burgess Drove Allotment Association

The Burgess Drove Allotment Association is a self managed, allotment association situated in the village of Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England. Our site contains 60 plots.

London Road Allotment Association

Homepage of London Road Allotment Association, Humber Road Coventry. We are the largest allotment site in coventry and aim to build a useful website covering all aspects of allotment gardening. Come and see what we've been up toand see upcoming events.

Moor Green Allotments

Moor Green Allotments have over 240 plots and a thriving growing community. An oasis in the heart of Birmingham.

Leek lottie

A website / forum for allotment holders and gardeners in the town of Leek, Staffs. The association meets in a local pub every month, and anyone interested is more than welcome to join the group on line, or in the flesh!

Wilton Allotments and garden society

Allotments site giving help and advice also useful links to flower shows, societies etc.

Littleover Lane Allotments

A private Association site in Derby with 181 plots, a wildlife area and a schools horticultural centre. This picturesque site participates in the National Garden Scheme, having open days twice a year.

Goodwood Road Allotments Malvern

Information hub for allotmenteers at Goodwood Road Allotments in Malvern. Events calender, news, hints and tips and more.

Scarcroft and District Allotment Association

We are a York based allotment association. Our blog contains photos from the 3 sites, information about the Shop, crime updates, recipes, summaries of committee meetings, information about wildlife, organisations linked to the association & social events.

International Allotments

Community allotment site over the last four years with the help of various grants have grown from 31 plots on a derelict vandalised site to 100 + plots on a secure site

Eaton Lands Allotments

Hythe Kent allotment society , Tips and advice on growing for the local Community

Debden Horticultural and Allotments Society

Website and Chat forum for plotholders of the Debden Horticultural Society in Loughton, Essex.

New Springs Allotments

An allotment website keeping the gardeners of New Springs Allotments and the local community up to date information about the allotments, Wigan and gardening events.

Leek Lottie

A Website for Allotment Holders and Gardeners in Leek Staffs. News views and information on local and national gardening issues. Whether about plots,sites or issues,we try to help our members.

Hilltop Landshare Allotments

Learning how to grow from scratch at Hilltop Farm's Landshare allotments.

Singleton Allotment Association Association

Swansea based allotment site, run by the Singleton Allotment Association

Lister Drive Allotments Liverpool

Lister Drive Allotment Society in Tuebrook, Liverpool L13 is a "not-for-profit" multicultural group of growers who exchange ideas and experience to the benefit of all members

Over Allotments and Leisure Gardeners' Association

Over Allotments are located within a four-acre site off Moss Bank, Winsford, Cheshire, UK. The allotments date from 1924, and today number 57 plots, and 5 raised beds for disabled users. The soil is a heavy clay, making it moist and prone to waterlogging.

londonderry allotments

allotment association promoting grow your own food and allotment culture

Kingsley Walk Allotment Association

We are an allotment association who have been self managed since 2004 we have just opened an old allotment site which is adjacent to our site which has 7 plots.

Paignton Home Garden and Allotment Society

The website for Paignton Home Garden and Allotment Society - which runs three allotments in Paignton, Devon, on a seven-year lease from Torbay Council. The sites are Lower Penns Road, Derrell Road and Oakleigh St Michael. News, dates, contacts etc.

Meopham & District Allotment Association

Meopham & District Allotment are located within the village of Meopham, 6 miles from Gravesend Kent. There are 160 plots which have been worked for approx 30 years. There is currently a waiting list for new plot holders

Debden Horticultural and Allotments Society

Website for Debden Horticultural and Allotments Society, Willingale Road, Loughton in Essex. Information about our allotments, contact details and news on events including a chat forum full of useful information for allotment users.

Hungerford Allotment Holders Association - HAHA

HAHA manages the running of the two Council allotment sites in Hungerford, Berkshire. The HAHA committee is made up of plot holders from Marsh Lane and Fairfields. We deal with the waiting lists and all aspects of the site management.

Willingale Road Allotments

Website for our Allotments in Loughton, Essex. Managed by Debden Horticultural and Allotments Society

Personal Allotment Pages, Blogs and growing information

Just like me, many allotment plot holders like to keep an online diary so others can see how and what they grow on their allotment plot. 

Digging on

Yorkshire allotment holder trying to follow one year of C H Middleton's Dig On for Victory

Dobbys Allotment

A personal journal (blog) of my life being an allotmenteer.

plot52

Greg Becker's 2011 illustrated allotment diary. A personal visual record of the triumphs and trials of a vegetable gardener. Detailing the ongoing struggles with pests, the weather, low flying golf balls, and a fear of deep digging.

Beryl and John Saunders Allotment

Award winning allotment in Gosport, Hampshire. Diary regularly updated, Wild Life, Q & A Forum, Lots of local information, News Letters etc.

Life on a London allotment

A series of articles covering the clearance and cultivation of a long-neglected and overgrown allotment on a site adjacent to a managed nature reserve. The articles on clearing an allotment will be useful to new plot holders as well.

Daily Mail Allotment Blog

The Daily Mail's Environment Editor on the joys and pitfalls of growing fruit and veg.

Green Cuttings! - The Allotment and Gardening Blog

The Gardening and Allotment Blog. Information and advice on all things green and growing. From flowers to fruit and vegetables and my different gardening technics

Life in the Highlands

How my garden has developed after the builders moved in....four years on and it's starting to produce crops. Gets a bit off topic but an interesting site all the same

Christine's Allotment

Personal tales from a London allotment

Allotmenticity

Description of taking over a new allotment with photos and regular updates - I like this one (John)

Our Allotment Venture!

A blog page all about our new allotment venture,the plot is very big and we are going to need all the help we can get! It's a blank canvas now but we are going to keep chicken and grow veg...Hopefully. Update - it's doing really well!

Soilman's Allotment Blog

A blog about growing vegetables on an allotment in SE England. Bit strange - they mentioned flowers when I checked! Well worth a visit though

Allotment Girls

Two girls and an allotment... follow the highs and lows as we plant and maintain our little allotment! They even sell clothes...

Urban Bumpkin

A blog of an allotment beginner. urbanbumpkin shares her successes, failures and new found knowledge about allotment gardening in Glasgow, Scotland.

Read's Retreat

My Veg Plot Diary. Join me every Sunday for updates on whats growing on. Using Organic methods whenever possible, cultivating veg in raised beds with detail of companion planting that attracts wildlife. Contributions & comments welcome

Down on the Allotment

Regularly updated and illustrated blog from an experienced veggie grower. "Because you can't eat flowers!" Really great blog, well worth visiting by someone who knows her stuff - John.

Real Men Sow

Fantastic allotment blog - full of interesting stuff and highly recommended to visit

Let's Get Plotting

The Story Of A First Timer's Allotment

Chris Cyprus

Northern Landscape Artist who specialises in painting life on the Allotments. It was a fasination that started with the humble shed and then became an addiction leading to getting my own plot!

City Chickens

The progress of an allotment in the Black Country with a few chicken stories thrown in. It's a really nice site, well worth clicking through to.

Today I Will Mostly Be Growing

Please join me on a voyage of veg discovery on my 3 back garden plots. Stay tuned every week for my trials and tribulations of growing my own vegetables.

Town Farm Allotment - Plot 68

Our first attempt at owning an allotment at Town Farm in Middlesbrough

Allotment Follies

Three London mums and their kids attempt to become true Allotmenteers.

Help! I got an allotment!

I have dreams and ideas of an allotment, now I have an allotment - it's a lot more work than I ever thought! But I am learning and experimenting and like to share with those who are too!

Grow Our Own

Blog about my allotment in Eden, Carrickfergus. Project just started in April 2008. Very exciting. Talk about what we're up to, photos and the ecotherapy aspect of gardening.

Veg Plot Diary

Welcome to my blog where I will be keeping a diary of veg growing on my plot, general gardening and chicken keeping.

Our Derbyshire Allotment

We consider ourselves an organic family and try to always buy food sourced from organic and non GM crops. This has led us to have a go at growing our own and here is our blog on our first attempt at an allotment.

Dontlosetheplot

My new allotment blog describing its start & development including gardening advice, tips & tricks with links to other gardening/allotment sites & blogs.

Morland Road Allotments - Plot 79

Allotment blog and website of Matthew Riches. Blog started this year (2009). Held allotment since Feb 2008.

Lakenham allotment Diary

My diary of my allotment from beginning to end

Allotment Ireland

A simple personal diary following my attempts to grow fruit, vegetables and flowers in County Antrim.

Simon's Allotment

A left-field allotment blog from a professional gardener with 25 years experience of growing veg, fruit and flowers.

Plot Lines

A diary of a novice allotment holder

Rob's Plot Blog

Tale's from a Sheffield Allotment

John's Plot

A blog of an allotment newcomer's attempt to grow enough vegetables for a family from a quarter plot.

My allotment plot

Blog following a complete beginer to allotment gardening. Have a laugh, take the mickey or give advice. Please comment on the things I have done. Right or Wrong!

Graeme's Allotment Blog

Blog diary of my first attempt at allotmenteering.

Pistonbroke Down The Allotment

A record by a complete novis who trys his hand at allotmenteering.

Liams Allotment

All about Plot 71 right from day 1 in Nov 2009

Plot Notes

A personal journal of a novice allotmenteer in North Lincolnshire

The Plot Thickens

My adventure into allotmenteering, Norfolk.

My Allotment

An amateur adventure into allotment gardening. A personal blog.

Marsh Lane Allotments - Plot7

We drew plot No.7 on the new Marsh Lane allotment site in Hungerford at the end of April 2009. Our plot measures 2.5 poles which has proved to be just right for our needs - though we had no idea when we were given that size.

Dee Haigh

Welcome to my little blog space Where I'm trying to live at a slower pace and more sustainably in busy suburbia - south London! I'm Passionate About... My Allotment Re-using. Recycling Cooking and Eating Preserving/Baking Organic Gardening

Growing Gains - Stephen and Deborah's Allotment Blog

Follow a year at our allotment at Oakley Road in Southampton. We've had this plot since 2006 so have had our share of successes and failures so far - 2010 could be our best year yet!

thelandgirlz

Tales from an allotment in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Follow the landgirlz throughout the seasons. Hear tales about the local characters and highs and lows of community growing in the Cotswolds.

Growing Family Trees and Vegetables

Information about my allotment and its progress linked with my Family Tree.

Our allotment

Our Allotment in Belper, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. Hello, We are Liz, Mike and our children Jack and Lucy. We got the allotment in the back end of 2009.All we did to start with was to cut back the weeds as it was covered in weeds.

The Smiths on Plot 4

A young family's attempt at growing their own in Northants. Join us as we work on our new allotment and try to grow our own fruit and vegetables.

Dig For Victory

New site charting the trials and tribulations of setting up your own allotment, and actually making it viable.

To The Manor Corn

A group of friends, one allotment, a few seeds�.how hard can this be?�

First Time Vegetable Growing

6 months ago I knew nothing about growing vegetables. This is a blog of my progress starting from the first day of sowing a seed.

Laur's Allotment

My journey from the beginning! Follow all my ups and downs of setting up my own allotment

Stinsos Family Allotment

We are a little Family in Lincolnshire with two plots, Growing and raising chickens having fun and enjoying everything the allotment way of life has to throw at them.