Stay with it TG I am 85 and go to my plot most days but can only do up to a couple of hours before getting too tired. If you reduce too much you will really regret it. I hope to do a bit more after a heart op next month, bypasses I had done 19 years ago are giving my a problem at the moment.
Thanks Laurie
I am not planning on giving up just cutting down.
What I have done since I last wrote is part fill the allotment I will keep ( the other part is for late stuff)
I am planting it in the fashion I would do if I only had one allotment and I will harvest that in a manner that will tell me if there is enough stuff to keep me and OH in vegetables like how we have been accustomed to over the years.
Based on the result I will decide what to do with my second allotment at the end of the year.
Meanwhile because I order my seeds & fertilisers etc in October I had ordered as I always do for the two plots, now I am finding I have too many seeds & plants so I am planting the surplus in the other plot rather than waste them and most likely I will give what ever I harvest to my Son & Daughter.
In terms of time I spend on the plot I have worked it out that I average around ten hours a week.
I go down only Monday to Friday and have the weekend off. OK at certain times in the season this might be as much as fifteen hours in a week but at other times it might only be five hours a week.
So I am back to a five day week like I was before I retired
In terms of age well it will suffice to say that I am a bit younger than you Laurie, but a bit older than Malcolm, mid way if you like!
In terms of health I have been having tests to establish why I get so tired but the quacks can't find a reason, I am going for another test next week again.
In fact I have gone so often lately when I go in to the surgery to see the nurse I call her 'The Vampire' she doesn't mind really, particularly as I I told her how the receptionist couldn't spell 'Phlebotomist' and wrote 'The Blood Nurse' on my appointment slip so she had a laugh too!