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General => News => Topic started by: Borlotti on December 07, 2009, 16:35:54

Title: Overgrown allotment
Post by: Borlotti on December 07, 2009, 16:35:54
Do you think this allotment is a bit overgrown, and it is not mine.
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: betula on December 07, 2009, 16:41:38
Yes.......lol   :)
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: saddad on December 07, 2009, 17:20:35
I've seen worse.... not covered in head high brambles or self set trees.....  :)
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: Amazingrotavator(Derby) on December 07, 2009, 17:55:45
Nothing an industrial strimmer and weed killer won't cure.
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: manicscousers on December 07, 2009, 18:06:03
those purple flowers are amazing  ;D
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: gardentg44 on December 07, 2009, 18:13:32
[Nothing an industrial strimmer and weed killer won't cure.]

I agree dont keep looking at it .

just get at it,in no time it will be an allotment .

a week tops ;D ;D :o
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: Sinbad7 on December 07, 2009, 18:18:19
A tad overgrown but have seen far worse.
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: 1066 on December 07, 2009, 18:19:46
Yes I'd say that is overgrown, can't really see any detail or order to the plot from the photo.
So who's is it?!
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: Borlotti on December 07, 2009, 18:22:50
This was a beautiful allotment, but my lovely friend, who had to give it up because of old age, and the fact that she is registered blind, and the Council are going to rotovate it and split it into four small allotments, so wait and see what happens.
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: flossy on December 07, 2009, 18:25:37

  I like the look of it, au nateral  --  better than what I inherited and it looks healthy,
     
    [ please work out my spelling yourselves ]   ;D
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: cornykev on December 07, 2009, 19:14:06
Borlotti, now show them a piccie of Joe swifts lottie, I hope he's done some work on it, it was a mess last time I visited.
I thought the council weren't going to rotavate any more.  ???
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: Borlotti on December 07, 2009, 19:40:56
No, he hasn't, haven't got an up to date photo of it, but they don't rotavate as a rule but this one is an exception, the trees the other side have got so tall that it can't be used as an allotment unless they cut the trees down.  I will look for a photo, was going to take a photo of Joe's pumpkin that has been eaten by birds, foxes whatever, and the sweetcorn that went to waste.
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: Borlotti on December 07, 2009, 20:02:43
Right photo of me, standing on an allotment, not mine, I am just a cheat and Joe's taken in April this year.  Will try to take another photo soon as Joe's has got worse.
Here we go.
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: Digeroo on December 07, 2009, 20:27:36
Overgrown? looks like a bed of honesty to me.  It will die back in the winter.
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: saddad on December 07, 2009, 22:26:05
I had assumed it was rosebay willowherb... but hadn't looked carefully...  :-[
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: tonybloke on December 07, 2009, 22:50:14
I had assumed it was rosebay willowherb... but hadn't looked carefully...  :-[
honestly, guv!!
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: Digeroo on December 07, 2009, 23:06:50
Quote
I had assumed it was rosebay willowherb
  I hope not especially if they are going to rotavate. :o :o   

At least you can hoe off honesty seedlings.  I use them as green manure.
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: Baccy Man on December 07, 2009, 23:19:12
I thought the council weren't going to rotavate any more.
...they don't rotavate as a rule but this one is an exception, the trees the other side have got so tall that it can't be used as an allotment unless they cut the trees down.

Surely even a council employee knows that you don't cut trees down with a rotavator.
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: cornykev on December 08, 2009, 16:43:20
Do you think Joe will get a letter for non cultivation, I think not.    :-X :-X :-X
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on December 08, 2009, 19:15:18
I don't see anything wrong with Joe's plot. It's a bit weedy, but so what. There's nothing that normal cultivation can't handle, and it's not overgrown or anything. As for the initial photo, it's more than a little overgrown, but it hasn't been left so long that brambles etc have got a hold.
Title: Re: Overgrown allotment
Post by: cornykev on December 08, 2009, 20:37:44
Rob that was taken 8 months ago and I may be wrong but I don't think he's been back since then.     :(   :-\   ???      ;D ;D ;D
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