Topic: Lottie Bug ?

[linsdownoptimist]

Have I got the lottie bug? The allotment I have just got last week is quite narrow and  that is the reason why I picked it. I had a choice of two ( the other being wider). Now I dont know whether to have both plots. I know I am probably just being greedy, but the idea behind my madness is that I may not get the chance of getting a double plot again.

The layout of our allotments is that we have 2 plots together separated by a communal path (not a fence). I dont know whether I am just being anti-social. I quite fancy the double plot so that i dont have anyone walking through the 2 plots, but i dont know whether i will be able to manage both. But it would be nice to have all that space. Dont know what to do - Grrrrrr !! ::)

[Hyacinth]

Take it for a year and see how you get on? Concentrate mainly on one, leaving the other for green manure, for instance...not much lost, then, if you find you can't cope with both?

ohhhh.....will she...won't she...will she... :-/ - cheers, Lish

[Doris_Pinks]

TAKE IT!  They are like gold dust around here and the waiting list is getting bigger by the year! (I think more and more people want to go back to growing their own!) You can always cover it until you have the time to tend both! (And you never have enough room ;D) Dottie P

[busy_lizzie]

Hi, It was my intention just to get half a plot when I started, but they only had a full plot vacant at the time, and boy! am I glad I went for the full one, as looking at the half plots now they seem tiny. I agree with everyone else - Go for it while you have the chance, I am sure you won't regret having the extra space.   :)  busy_lizzie      

[budgiebreeder]

The same goes for Greenhouses,you think oh that one will be plenty big enough then find out it's nowhere near big enough.Mind you the same goes for freezers then when you start freezing all of your surplus crops.So my advice is the same as the others go for it.

[legless]

i have just been visiting my sister in peterborough and we had to walk past some allotments to pick up the kids from school and some were vacant, i was instructing her in no uncertain terms to go and sign up for one now  ;D

.....she wasn't convinced, i think she thinks i'm mad

[cleo]

Well then Legless,if she does can I put her on my customer list? ;D

Not quite Peterborough cos we is snobs,more Stamford don`t you know.

Smiling Cat/Stephan.

[legless]

oh goodness, stamford, how flash. tell me its not that big house on the way out of stamford next to a stream? my mum has always wanted that house (i'm from spalding)

[Mrs Ava]

Unfortunately linsdownoptimist, you are infected with the said Lottie Bug.  Now there are several creams on the market and I believe some tablets, but my advice is to accept this terrible affliction, get yourself down to the lottie office and grab that other plot and just get to work!  You will suffer teh consequences and many side effects, wonderful homegrown fruit and veg in abundance, flatulance if you eat the roots of things that you were supposed to force and eat the leaves, aching bones, altho radox is a good cure for that one,(but this particular docotrs believes whiskey to be more effective), and so on.  I am yet to find someone who has been cured, so my condolences.  ;D

[linsdownoptimist]

Thank you wonderful doctors of this oh so terrible lottie bug. I will take your prescription and rush down to see the lottie secretary on Saturday. If its still empty  then I'll take it, along with a bottle of radox  ;D

[Doris_Pinks]

Don't forget the bottle of Gin!  ( for your sloe gin, better than radox any day ;D)

[cleo]

oh goodness, stamford, how flash. tell me its not that big house on the way out of stamford next to a stream? my mum has always wanted that house (i'm from spalding)

No not that one!!,I am in a little village called West Deeping.

It`s sort of flat here isn`t it?? ;D ;D

Stephan.

[legless]

i prefer to say that it has a lot of sky  ;D