Allotments 4 All
Allotment Stuff => Locations and Sites => Topic started by: Mrs Ava on July 23, 2007, 16:47:49
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I guess this covers Kent and Sussex and others in that corner? ;D
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And Winchester and the rest of Hampshire ??? ??? ???
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Well, according to google, the south east covers Kent, East and West Sussex, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and the Isle of Wight. ;D
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Forster Road - Beckenham Kent
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Greenhill Road Winchester and (sooooon sooooon very sooooon) Park Road Winchester :)
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Choice allotments in Hastings. (Blackman Avenue)
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hi all
Farnbrough Road, Farnham Surrey here.
Is a new site opened ester this year.
ian
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Western in Southampton
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Brand new bramble infested plot.
Teston, Kent
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Mine is in Crawley West Sussex..
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Milton Piece. Southsea, Portsmouth
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will hopefully be getting a plot on choice allotment in hastings( blackman ave i think its called) but i hear they have bad bramble there, i hope my plot is not too bad think im wishfull thinking lol
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Fernbank allotments in Hastings!
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;D Hi ALL. My Plots come under Greenwich, Eltham, Mottinham, London, SE9.
But they are only 5 minutes apart. May you and yours and what you grow live long and happy. John.J.R.P. ;D
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Gosport, Hampshire
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Crowborough, East Sussex for me.....the ones next to the cemetary! ;D
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Hi,
Our allotment is in West Ewell, Surrey
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Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire...
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I saw a signpost to a place called Loose Chippings - is that anywhere near you?
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Off Culver Lane in Reading, Berks.
My first year. Blighted onions and tomatoes but great beans and the parsnip is looking great.
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Kirby Road, Stone, Kent (Dartford)
Twinkletoes
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Scours Lane, Reading, Berkshire
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Culver Lane Reading.
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wattsville south wales
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cherry orchards, stoke road SLOUGH!!
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cherry orchards, stoke road SLOUGH!!
I have to drive to Slough once a week to visit our head office. I pass an allotment on my way into Slough on the Uxbridge Road and often think how I'd much rather be on my plot rather than be heading in to work followed by another 3 hour drive round the M25 home.
Is this your site ?
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no, those allotments aren't council property and the land is rented out by a private owner, for nearly twice the rent i pay. it's a lovely site though, some beautiful allotments there! i'm literally a 2 and a half minute drive from that site.
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Commercial road in Staines.
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Western in Southampton, Hampshire
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Mine is in Buckingham. Bucks
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Hi Jocko and welcome :)
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hiya, jocko and all you newbies on this thread, don't live in the south east but my son does, does that count ? ;D
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Long Meadow in Portsmouth
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Church Street, Cliffe. Near Rochester.Kent. Going to be s bit of work but worthwhile. Can remember taste of seasonal veg( did not come in plastic bags)Save those Air Miles.
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Mine is plot 2, Street End Road allotments- Chatham Kent!
....which oddly isn't in Street End Road at all - but in Third Avenue - Street End Road is the next road! .............very confusing!
Louise
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Tongham in Surrey, well will be in hopefully 2 wks time!
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Napier Road Horndean Hants ;D
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HI MY ALLOTMENT IS IN EASTCOURT LANE GILLINGHAM KENT I HAVE TWO PLOT,S
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Wave to me on a clear day all you folk on the other side of the Estuary.
Great Wakering, Southend-on-Sea Essex.
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Parsons allotments... Newbury.
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Parsons allotments... Newbury.
Are you going to the potato days at Whitchurch this weekend?
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West Tarring site. Worthing, West Sussex.
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Reading, Berkshire. Very very Newbie so all tips/advice greatly received :)
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Memorial ground site, Paddock Wood - West Kent
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hiya, angelah, nice to meet you ;D
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My allotment will be on Beaver Field, Ashford, kent.
Are there any other members of A4A in Ashford?
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hi ya and welcome, im in hastings east sussex,mpg
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I'm at the lane Virginia water
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I've moved sites, from Staines (too much couch grass) to Hatton road allotments in Bedfont.
There's no couch grass, it's a 1/3rd of the price and the people are a lot friendlier. :D
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Following a forced relocation my new allotment is in Maidstone, Kent. Amazingly enough I got the last plot on our site and it happens to line up directly with my back garden. I can see my plot without even getting out of bed.
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The Valley site in Stanmore, Winchester :)
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Spiritofold - nice to have a near neighbour on A4A - we've got a plot on Park Road and also at Greenhill Road (behind the prison)
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Near Liss in Hampshire. ;)
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Nice to meet you on here Asbean :)
My old man has a plot at Park Road, not far from Bimbo the pony.
Andy
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We've got the new poly tunnel - next to the pink shed at the top near the railway line :) :) :) :)
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West Sussex, in wet and breezy Shoreham-by-Sea today
Cheers
Tony
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going to look at a plot in chertsey (barsbrook) in 26 mins time :) :D ;D
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Southbys....south newbury
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My allotment will be on Beaver Field, Ashford, kent.
Are there any other members of A4A in Ashford?
Hi, I'm near Ashford, Kingsnorth to be exact, so not too far away. I'm afraid I don't have an allotment just a veg. patch in the back garden.
;)
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Hello there Barbara V Im really near you then as I live at Austin road just off the Kingsnorth Road, South Ashford. Im really new to growing veg, only had my allotment for a couple of months. If you ever fancy getting together for a chat & a cuppa my email is sargeantjane@yahoo.co.uk ;D
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Hi Crystalmoon,
Probably not a good idea to put your e-mail on the internet. I suggest you ask Dan to delete your message and send your e-mail to Barbara by PrivateMessage (PM) - just click on the picture of a scroll under the message sender's name or avatar.
PS I was brought up near Hamstreet but have just hit 30 years in London
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Thanks Barnowl yes you are right I kinda forgot there was a huge internet world out there besides our A4A site ::) So silly! Not sure how to ask Dan to delete. And the PM thingy?????
Will try to figure it out,am abit computer illiterate :D
I was born in Woolwich & lived in south east London until my 20s when I moved to kent. I love Hamstreet woods ;D
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Phew! worked out how to PM but not sure how I can contact Dan so Dan please could you remove my email address from my message. If anyone knows how to contact him & wouldnt mind doing so on my behalf I would be very grateful. Thank you
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sorry everyone me again...think I may have finally found a way to message Dan.
Im such a novice with all things related to computers & allotments ::) no wonder my 11 year old thinks I grew up in the olden days ;D
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I'm in the South Road site in Bracknell, Berkshire. It's by Downshire Golf Course and is just about to get it's first membership to the allotment association giving us some more powers :) Only took 30 years ;)
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Sunny Sutton. I am a total newbie. Managed to barter at Woolworths for a dead plant that was guaranteed to grow. I am waiting to see if the "weeds" in the pot turn into anything interesting!
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HI All new allotment4All member, and brand new allotment holder.
My allotment is in Southwick in between Hove and Shoreham-by Sea.
Any local people around? Esp if they have a rotavator i could use :o
Thanks
Paul
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Welcome to A4A, Paul :) :) :) :) :) :)
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I'm in the South Road site in Bracknell, Berkshire. It's by Downshire Golf Course and is just about to get it's first membership to the allotment association giving us some more powers :) Only took 30 years ;)
Loved eating in the Downshire Arms - when we lived there =
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here www.tshs.co.uk
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here www.tshs.co.uk
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Think you might have posted in the wrong area hoffey? Are you East Anglia?
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i am in preston lancashire on penwortham holme east on the banks of the riiver ribble
been here since 1979
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i am in preston lancashire on penwortham holme east on the banks of the riiver ribble
been here since 1979
I think this thread might be closer to home
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,34170.0.html (http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,34170.0.html)
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Hello :) my plot is off of Manor Hall Road, Southwick on the border of East and West Sussex.
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Im at the Benhill Site in Sutton Surrey
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Hi, I am in Battle East Sussex
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Hi all - new member here. Hope I'm okay to join here - I'm not on an allotment but thoroughly enjoy my rather good sized vege garden that I have out back of the house. I've been a member of another forum for a while, and was very good but now being overrun by one poster with what must be mush for brains - a bit of a p*sstwat me thinks :) So looking for somewhere else that can be helpful where we can exchange information on our gardens/allotments. We're in Kent by Dartford - and while there are a few allotment areas around us - I hope my back garden interests will be welcomed here :)
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Not got a Allotment just two areas of the back garden for veg one 10 x 16 foot and two 8 x 17 foot all allotments taken in my area :'(.
And that is High Wycombe Bucks
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Welcome Canucksintheuk - this is a friendly forum and think you'll enjoy it. I'm in Dartford too - on the Kirby Road Allotments.
twinkletoes
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hi there
i have a plot at new town road, southampton
:D :D
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Hello everyone. :)
Mine is Great south in Chatham Kent
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Hello Muttsnuts, and welcome. ;D
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Hiya, muttsnutts, welcome to the madhouse ;D
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Welcome to the madhouse MuttsNutts... had some body taken Do*sBol*ocks or would it not go through the filter... ::)
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Hi,
Thanks for the welcome messages. ;D
Nope sadam, just a polite way for that saying it 8). I even have an email as it lol
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Had a b/f who's house overlooked Preistfields Stadium a million years ago.... I didn't hang around, I wonder why. ;D ;D ;D
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Can understand that LOL.
Still we're on the way back up this season.........I hope lol :o
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ub40nd
google earth it
;D
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Preston Road Bexhill on Sea East Sussex. Lovely part of the world
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in Horley Surrey
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Wednesbury West Midlands
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Hatfield , Herts -- as South East as you can get [ I think ] ;D
floss xxx
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Redbridge in Oxford...... we've a few unused plots if anyone wants one (IIRC there were three left before I took mine). Lovely soil (alluvial loam)
chrisc
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I'm in Middle Road, Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex :)
Lushy x
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My little patch is in Southcote (SW Reading, Berkshire). Anybody else nearby?
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Brand new bramble infested plot.
Teston, Kent
Are there any still available? I am in Maidstone, looking for an allotment. What street are they on, if I may ask, so I can "Google Earth" them?
I am looking high and low and hoping to find some space!
Thank you!
Anne
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Following a forced relocation my new allotment is in Maidstone, Kent. Amazingly enough I got the last plot on our site and it happens to line up directly with my back garden. I can see my plot without even getting out of bed.
That's really cool! I love little pieces of serendipity like that!
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Hi
We are at Pinewood in New Haw, Surrey.
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hi impkin
welcome to A4A
lbb (also on a runnymede plot)
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Hi Impkin, welcome to A4A... :)
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Thank you for the welcome messages :)
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welcome impkin, I'm in Chobham, Surrey. :)
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welcome new south easters i'm in maidstone on allotment waiting lists but grow my veg in my garden :)
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I've just got my allotment!!!
I had to leave my old one behind when we moved to Hastings, and after being on the waiting list for almost a year, I've been offered one - and it's grassed over but that's all, so I'm really excited.
Everyone thinks I must be mad, because I've moved house, had a baby and got a 2-year-old and a full-time job. So I thought about turning the allotment down - but of course I didn't!
I know you lot will understand why.
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Hi! Our allotment is in Southby's - Newbury! ;D
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Sunny Southwick, West Sussex
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Hi Chippy, nice to see another West Sussexer ;D
Horsham here
Linda
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Well, we went on a wait list in March, were 8th on the list, and were lucky enough last night to be able to go get the key to the gate, and be assigned our allotment :) I'm really pleased - heading down there in a little while to do some digging over, taking a picnic dinner, a bottle of wine and some chairs. No sheds allowed on the site so as to keep the area 'green' looking.
Our site is in Meopham, Kent. It's a lovely looking site - some very very well kept allotments there!
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Hi Can congrats on the new lottie, have fun. ;D ;D ;D
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Well, we went on a wait list in March, were 8th on the list, and were lucky enough last night to be able to go get the key to the gate, and be assigned our allotment :) I'm really pleased - heading down there in a little while to do some digging over, taking a picnic dinner, a bottle of wine and some chairs. No sheds allowed on the site so as to keep the area 'green' looking.
Our site is in Meopham, Kent. It's a lovely looking site - some very very well kept allotments there!
wow only a 2 month wait lucky you
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Small site in Basingstoke within walking distance of home (5mins). Got the key in Oct08 after a three year wait and both spends ages down there. Highlight was walking down on Christmas Day to pick Brussels (rubbish crop but we had enough), dig up the last few carrots, a swede and a parsnip. We then had our on potatoes roasted with some of the broad beans from the freezer.
Both spend far too long down there but love it
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Welcome to A4A non-stick... :)
Nothing better than sitting down to a meal of all your own veg... ;D
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Welcome to A4A, non-stick - hope you stick around ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
You're just up the road from us - we're next to the railway line in Winchester - if you look up the plot we're next to the pink shed :) :) :) :)
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I'm just across the thames at Canewdon in Essex.
Put my name down in May, got my plot 3 weeks ago, covered in 3ft weeds. have now got it cleared with potatoes, tomatoes, onions, beans, garlic and salad leaves. Had been growing from seed but when plot came up early i did cheat and by a couple of plants from a garden centre to get it started.
Looking forward to when i can start picking fresh produce.
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we are in preistlands in Sidcup
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in brixworth northants
under shadow of All Saints' Church was probably built around A.D.680
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Chippy Queen we are in Shoreham, Middle Road, you are my nearest A4A neighbour :)
Lushy x
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far, far west of you in Newark, Delaware
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Well Grannyannie thanks to the age of the internet we re all friends and neighbours on here - oh yuck that sounds really corny - you know what I mean tho ::)
Lushy
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Collier Road Allotments ,Hastings East Sussex ;D
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Close to 1066 then... :)
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and me! :)
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Hello everyone - I'm a newbie on this site but I've just taken ownership of an allotment in Whitley, Reading ;D
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Hello everyone - I'm a newbie on this site but I've just taken ownership of an allotment in Whitley, Reading ;D
Welcome to A4A, Robthebob - what's your new plot like ???
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Hello everyone - I'm a newbie on this site but I've just taken ownership of an allotment in Whitley, Reading ;D
Welcome to A4A, Robthebob - what's your new plot like ???
Hi there...just popped down there; it has been rotovated by the council (didn't get much of a choice in that unfortunately) so it is a brown half plot at the mo 4paces by 23paces. I do seem to have got a decent plot though as I have a water trough and tap on the corner which is handy and I found out that there are toilets on site...always useful ;) The soil seems nice and humusy although there is PLENTY of vegetation chopped up into it so I suspect I'll have plenty of days clearing ahead of me ::)
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Hi and welcome Robin, make sure you dig out all them chopped up roots and weeds, or you will be fighting them regrowing for the next 2 years.
Like you, our council rotovated it without me knowing and it took myself, my Dad and my mate weeks to dig all the roots out. Mark out a smallish area and dig it over, throwing out the roots, a bit each day and you will soon get on top of things, burn all the roots on Guy Fawkes and you will have some decent ash to dig back in to your beds. ;D ;D ;D
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Collier Road Allotments ,Hastings East Sussex ;D
Close to 1066 then... :)
and me! :)
Missed this one! Anyway a belated A4A welcome ;D
And hello RobinTheBobin !
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Angmering Village, West Sussex.
We've been on the list for nearly a year and we got the call last week to come and look at a vacant plot. Just waiting on the paperwork now. :)
I've been reading these forums for months and it seemed like the right time to register now that we've secured an allotment.
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Congratulations on your new allotment, but beware allotments can take over your life and you get withdrawal symptons if you can't visit. No holidays can be taken in the growing season. Good luck, enjoy and you will meet some very friendly, generous people.
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Welcome to A4A Phil, congratualtions on getting a plot of your own... :)
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welcome to the forum, phil ;)
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Nice one Phil and happy digging. ;D ;D ;D
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Welcome Phil and heres to loads of fresh food next year :)
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Thank you all for the welcome. I can't wait to get stuck in to both the allotment and these forums.
I worked a vegetable and fruit garden for an elderly gentlman for about 8 years under strict instruction. I'm looking forward to doing my own thing now and experimenting. And having moved down from the high ground of the Scottish Borders to the low lying south of England, I'm anticipating enjoying a growing season of more than four weeks!
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Nice one Phil, lovely part of the world (angmering that is!) and welcome to A4A ;D
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Welcome from me too, not too far away from me, I'm in Shoreham. Happy gardening :)
Lushy x
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Welcome, Phil and congratulations. It's going to be great having a plot of your own. You're going to be going mad planning this winter!
beware allotments can take over your life and you get withdrawal symptons if you can't visit.
I have that! I get weird sort of flashbacks as if I've taken psychadelic drugs - when I'm in the middle of a load of paperwork or answering emails or something. I get a sniff of freshly dug earth or a vision of the plot.
Is that weird?
I'm suffering now, because I've got a bad back and couldn't go to the allotment at the weekend. Am worried it won't be better by this next weekend either. :(
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Hi everyone,
After 3 years waiting, we finally got our mitts on our allotment in Winnersh, Berkshire!
Got the letter last Friday, started digging on Saturday, sowed garlic and red onions on Sunday - a good day in the biodynamic calendar, apparently. Found out on Tuesday that the garlic was meant to be planted in cloves, not bulbs... have to wait for another biodynamically happy weekend day to dig up said garlic and re-plant as cloves. We have a LOT to learn ;D
Hope there's someone nearby who is up for doing some seed swapping; I'm going to explore this site thoroughly over the next few weeks :)
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Hi Laura and Clive congratualtions on getting your plot and welcome to A4A. There's tons of info on here and feel free to ask, there's also a Wikki button on the home page which has links to loads of useful stuff, blogs etc
I've had my plot for over a couple of years and still manage to have my blonde moments ;)
1066
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Hi my allotment is in the sleepy village of Dane End in Herts, it is not a large site only 9 small plots and i could probabaly do with double the size of mine, but hubby and i love it.
LD
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sorry, wrong region
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Hi Laura and Clive congratualtions on getting your plot and welcome to A4A. There's tons of info on here and feel free to ask, there's also a Wikki button on the home page which has links to loads of useful stuff, blogs etc
I've had my plot for over a couple of years and still manage to have my blonde moments ;)
1066
Well, they're going to have to actually write instructions on the packets rather than general diagrams if they want me to be able to grow sensibly!! Stoopid manufacturers. Aren't they supposed to assume all customers are dumb, and those that know what they're doing can ignore the instructions ;D
Thanks for the welcome, am off to investigate the Wikki button.
Laura :)
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welcome to the board!! ;)
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anyone here from northants or south leicester?
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Hi, just got my plot, only waited 11 months, which seems quite good compared to many.
Nursted Lane, Longfield Hill, Kent.
A nice bramble patch to work up a sweat on :-\ bit out of practice, its been nearly 10 years since I last had an allotment.
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welcome to A4A Veggietating and congratulations on the plot ;D
And good luck with the brambles!
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new romney, kent...
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Hi Veggietating & gto2210 welcome to A4A ;D
This is such a great place to get help, advice & support especially as you start a new allotment. Hope you both find A4A as helpful as I have
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Hi, I'm new to the forum.
I got my plot in Gravesend, Kent back in Oct and I am almost on top of it now and looking forward to when its full of lovely veg.
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Welcome to the forum Radish, get over to the shed and introduce yourself on the newbie thread theres more going on over there. ;D ;D ;D
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Hi there Radish, hope you are enjoying the A4A site ;D
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He's a right cheeky one that CornyKev!!
Hi Radish and welcome to A4A :)
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Hello there. I'm a newbie and have been getting help on the Basics Forum. Like a few others on here, I also have an allotment in Hastings, 1066 country. Mine is at Paul's Field.
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Nice to meet you SeaBea :)
There's a few of us in Hastings and St Leonards on here, but I don't think there is anyone from Paul's Field ;D
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Oh me! I am on Paul's Field! I'm on the top field near the shed that looks like a swiss chalet.
I won't be able to talk about people from the site now :( ;D ;D
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Hi All
I've had my allotment for nearly two years now in South Oxfordshire, still trying to get it all dug as has been dorment for 15 years. Have been looking at this site for months now and find it very informative but have only just got round to becoming a member!!!!
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watcha Lottieman and welcome to A4A :)
Oh me! I am on Paul's Field! I'm on the top field near the shed that looks like a swiss chalet.
I won't be able to talk about people from the site now :( ;D ;D
Swiss Challet!!!! Sounds a bit smart!
1066 :)
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Thanks 1066 ;D
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Swiss Challet!!!! Sounds a bit smart!
Yes I wouldn't mind a shed like that. But if it was mine I might go into twee overdrive and paint it different colours and put up curtains or something!
So maybe it's a good thing it's not... ;D
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Just took an overgrown plot in Holmbury St Mary, no fencing or water though. I like a challenge! Only £15 a year so cannot complain.
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Not far away from you down in Horsham.
Good luck with your challenge ipt8, a bit like my plot when I took it over. The soil should be good underneath all that overgrown vegetation though ;)
Ninny
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I'm not telling. You'll Chiv my pumpkin. ;)
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Having joined A4A very recently I’ve dropped in to say hello to my neighbours in the south east. Also a special wave along the coast and across the Downs to everyone in Sussex like me.
B.A.H.A is where I am when I can get there weather and commitments permitting. I have one and a half plots and love them. The main plot has been in the family for a little more than 50 years. Does that count as a heritage site? ;D
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Hello from the far end of Sussex!
What's B.A.H.A.?
Having a plot in the family for over 50 years sounds amazing - tell us that story? Who was the first one on there and how did you end up with it?
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Hello from the far end of Sussex!
What's B.A.H.A.?
Having a plot in the family for over 50 years sounds amazing - tell us that story? Who was the first one on there and how did you end up with it?
Hi pigeonseed. :) I'm further west
BAHA = Bognor Allotment Holders Association
The plot was my fathers when we first moved south. I was about 6 when he took it on. Over the years I helped out now and then. When my father was ill I offered more help until eventually he was sowing seeds at home in his greenhouse and I was planting them out and running the plot.
Now that he's 96 he continues to offer advice and, once in a while, is able to go and view the plot. At other times I use his tv to show photos of how things are going on "our" plot.
Team work. :)
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good to "meet" you Aden Roller. And what a great way to share the plot :)
another one over in the east ;)
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good to "meet" you Aden Roller. And what a great way to share the plot :)
another one over in the east ;)
Nice to meet you too. :)
My grandfather was born is Hastings... a long time ago (and his name was Harold!!) ;D
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LOL !!!!!
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Hi all,
I wonder if anyone can help me..
I've been wracking my brains as to what to get my mum for her 50th birthday! (Monday) although she is away until tues, but I'm at uni so have a little longer to sort it out!
After thinking long and hard (I'm blonde, so this occassionally hurts... Nothing to do with my science degree..) and then I remembered she's always wanted an allotment! And she is on the waiting list - unfortunately, I have no contacts who work in the council who could push her up the list, so to speak!
I rang up today, and she is on the waiting list for Woodlands road, Gillingham. Beacause she lives in Darland, this is the closest plot this is the list she gets allocated to .. although I'm sure she'll be prepared to travel 5-10 mins in the car!
In 2009 she was 90 something on the list, today she was around 74th!
Now, for her birthday I was going to pay her allotment fees for a year - and obviously beacause I cannot wrap it, I was going to put banners up and take her there - thought it would be a lovely idea - until the woman told me she was 70+ on this list.
I then search private allotments.. and not much joy there..
Please please, can anyone help..
In the Gillingham (Kent) area: Does anyone own 2+ plots and are willing to share.
Or does anyone have a plot they are finding difficult on there own and are willing to share????
Any information anyone has, I would be very grateful!!!!
Many thanks
:)
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Welcome to the forum Izzy. You've just discovered the hard facts that allotments are fashionable, there aren't enough of them and once you get one you hang onto it until it's prised out of your cold dead fingers!
If it's growing space as opposed to an allotment your Mum wants, then you might have more luck on Landshare:
http://www.landshare.net/ (http://www.landshare.net/)
Great idea for a present though - I hope you get lucky!
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Thanks ceres,
I'll check it out - although its a pain keep in-putting personal details! haha
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No pain, no gain!
Most allotment sites open their gates for a short period sometime over the weekend. You could find out when that is for your chosen site (may be a sign on the gate or hang around and ask people going in) and make yourself known to a committee member. They may know of someone who could use some help. However, your Mum wouldn't get any ownership rights to the plot and would still have to wait her turn on the waiting list.
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Hmm, yes, great idea! Thanks
I understand that plot share would have nothing legal with it, and fall out, having to stop etc may occur - its one of those awkward choices isnt it? You can use space in a plot, knowing that you may have to give it up or you wait for 10 years to be allocated one!
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Hello a newbie here.
Just got our first plot in Edenbridge. I'd heard the waiting lists were crazy but rang up anyway to get on the list and found out no one is waiting and there were 3 and 1/2 to choose from! lucky lucky me!!! :D So off I skipped down there to meet the allotment manager and choose my patch.
So I only have 2 weeks to wait until I can 'move in'....I'm incredibly excited!
I used to have a small veggie patch in my garden but then along came 2 kids, 4 cats and 2 dogs (not all at the same time!) and put an end to my little peace of heaven so very much looking forward to getting stuck in and the plot is in good condition too so not much digging to do :)
Got a greenhouse coming (thanks Freecycle) on Tuesday for the garden so I can get things going in there too. Yipeeeeee ;D
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So.... how are we all doing in the south east with this dreadful shortage of water? ::)
No hosepipe ban where I am not that anyone in their right mind would want to use one right now.
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So.... how are we all doing in the south east with this dreadful shortage of water? ::)
No hosepipe ban where I am not that anyone in their right mind would want to use one right now.
Hosepipe ban here and standpipe threats looming already for next spring ::).................and here I am, at the ready to instruct hubby and son on how to syphon the water from their baths down to my water butts. :)
It's early days and may the heavens always open (at night time). Good wishes to all us South Eastern gardeners and allotmenteers for the growing season, not forgetting those at all compass points who also suffer at times.
Ninny
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The keep telling us all the rain we are having will not help the drought as the summer rain is taken up by the plants or evaporates.
Well that may be true if the ******* sun would show its self >:(
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We really could do with some warmth in the next few weeks or it'll be a late start to the growing season.
Where's the sunny south gone to? :(
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Is there anyone else out there from our south east region? Perhaps we've had some new members join us?
I was wondering how everyone was doing down south in this drought ridden-hosepipe ban season?
Wet or what?
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Hi Aden I'm in the South East....in not sunny at all Kent!
This year has been so bad that I am actually planning to give up my allotment & am in the process of moving the raised beds to my tiny back garden so I can have a mini plot outside my back door.
I have arthritis & don't drive & have moved quite a long way away from my lotty recently so all of that combined with the awful weather, regular break ins at the allotments, silly new rules about not being able to grow anything that stays in the soil for more than one year ::) have made my mind up for me. I will be very sad to see it go after taming it from an awful wilderness to a very productive plot but I have to be realistic, keeping it on without the help of my sons who have now left home & moved away just isn't viable unless we are having normal seasons. If we were having a very dry year like last year I wouldn't be able to water enough! xJane
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My plot is in rain sodden Kent!
Near Chatham in fact!
I shall go down tomorrow to pick some bits and bobs but must admit that this year it is very weedy - it is just so hard to keep it weeded when it's too wet to walk on!
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HI Jane (Crystalmoon) and Louise Stella.
Sorry to hear you are both experiencing the same as me. Miserable isn't it no matter how optimistic you try to be it is a b*gger of a year with little sign of good growing weather on the near horizon. Even if things do get back to "normal" I wonder if there's enough of the season left. ::)
I think, Jane (Crystalmoon) you are very sensible. There's no point in struggling or worrying and if it's not enjoyable stop, adapt and if it suits carry on in a more manageable way.
I have one-and-a-half plots. The grass paths are lush (and need cutting yet again!!!!), the weeds wonderful and a few struggling crops are trying their best.
I give it one more year for the half plot as I have started a new home veg garden across the road in my parents new bungalow. Downsizing gradually. Not what I expected so soon as I'm now early retired but, what with the weather and looking after my parents 7 days a week, there's less time than anticipated.
At least we can't moan about all those trips up and down with a watering can. ;)
It's pouring again after just 10 minutes sunshine (the first for 3 days) so I'm off to get my parents washing back in. :(
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On the off chance that anyone still sees this thread, I've got two half-plots (that's like a whole plot, but with two other people in the middle!) on Wolvercote Common in Oxford. We're in 380-odd acres of water meadow, stuck out on the top of a SSSI thanks to a naughty Austrian named Adolf, with water from wells provided by the Thames a few hundred yards away. Well, it's a few hundred yards away at the moment, some winters it's right over the top of us! It's just about two hundred yards from our back door - I can just about see the alloments if I stand on the kitchen sink and look out over the rooftops - and on a sunny day it's a wonderful place to garden. When it's windy and the rain is coming in sideways on a westerly, it takes some dedication!
Adrian
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Welcome to A4A. I am just over the border in Gloucestershire technically in the South West. We are near the Thames too. So if I pee, sooner or later it will (after cleaning) be coming your way.
The West/ North West Wind rips through our site too. I plant tall peas along the windward side of my plot every year to give the plants some protection in the Spring and hide my courgettes etc behind bales of straw.
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We are near the Thames too. So if I pee, sooner or later it will (after cleaning) be coming your way.
Sounds like you are just the sort of people upstream I worry about! :tongue3:
It's also why I'm amused by the Commoners' Committee wanting to declare the common organic - with water from the Thames? Hmm...
Thanks for the tips about the wind (as it were) - might have to try the bales one in particular, and get some net for the peas to climb too.
Adrian
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I personally would be more worried about what comes out of Swindon.
I agree with you that it would be very difficult to think of the River Thames as organic. Very few of the farms upstream are organic.
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Hi, I took over a 5 pole allotment on Hanging Hill, Marlow, Bucks 2 years ago last October. Hoping to get the neighbouring 5 pole one too, should hear any time now:-)
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Maidenhead
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Lavant, about a mile north of Chichester.
Simon.
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Hi everyone my new allotment is in Newtown Ashford Kent