What percentage of land to be cultivated ?

[andrea66]

When I first took on my lottie I remember reading somewhere that the site has to be 75% cultivated and 25% for sheds,greenhouses etc. but for the life in me I can't find these rules anywhere...........was I dreaming ?
I thought this was pretty standard.

[andrea66]

[BarriedaleNick]

Depends on your tenancy agreement.  Everyone has different agreements/rules in place.

[Vinlander]

It also depends on how ignorant the assessors are - I have 2 grapevines running parallel with less than the recommended space between them but the assessors classed the gap as uncultivated  .

Maybe next year I'll leave the pruning until after they've gone - then they'll accuse me of not cultivating the vines properly .

Seems like if you can't make the place look like Gardeners World then they will find a way to lean on you...

As far as I'm aware, all the relevant Acts  concentrate on productivity (I call it microholding) - nowhere does it ask for the tidiness of a knot garden - or the sterility of same for that matter.

Cheers.

[markfield rover]

75% here, I think it's the usual.

[Melbourne12]

We keep chickens on one of our plots (half plot).  What with the chickens and the fruit trees, the compost bins and the potting tables, we've only got perhaps a quarter actually growing vegetables in beds.  But the council allotments people are quite happy.  We did notify them about the chickens when we started.