practice pictures of my allotment

[vee]

Just trying to post some pictures of before and two years after. Fingers crossed...

when I started in oct 2004 and



this September.

Hope this works

[vee]

[vee]

oooh it works!! :D

I thought it would just show the link and not the actual photo - I'm sooo chuffed.
Off to bed as I've been faffing around with this for ages and didn't realise how late it was!

[southernsteve]

Lovely pics. With a view like that I doubt if I'd ever get anything done. Must be great to sit there on a summers afternoon with a cold drink.

Steve

[ruffmeister]

what views!!!!  :o you will never ever be disheartened there!!!!

[supersprout]

how beautiful vee! wooded slopes and established trees ... a real bit of heaven :D
more pics please! ;D

[dandelion]

WOW Great location! (nice lotty too ;))

[tim]

These & other b&a photos should be in the Wiki to show what determination & perseverance can achieve.

[manicscousers]

what a wonderful place to sit with a cuppa after doin' a bit  :)

[Emagggie]

Looks like a special place to me. :D

[vee]

Yes it is a nice place to sit (and I do quite a lot of sitting with a flask of coffee ;)).

All the bricks were already there under the brambles and weeds, but I have left them as it would be just too much work to start digging them up, but I have put in the raised beds with wooden edges after chopping down some self sown willows. This is of the brambles when I got the plot in Oct 2004


and this is of this June

When I've got disheartened I just look at the photos I took at the beginning and it keeps me going.
I'm now reclaiming the area up the hill to the left behind where I was standing when I took the photos.
Thanks for your nice comments :)

[supersprout]

That June pic is idyllic vee, those look like proper old bricks around the edges, did you lug them all up there yourself? That brick path on the left is so picturesque! LOVE these photos, thank you!
<bigpatonbacksmiley>
:D

[manicscousers]

and you get all your leafmould delivered via your trees  :)

[RobinOfTheHood]

That looks fantastic!  :)

Well done you!   ;D

[vee]

The bricks were already there SS, I just uncovered them. I think in the past there may have been a large greenhouse further up my plot but only the outline remains. One of the people on our site said he had found enough bricks to build a house!

[teresa]

Oh Vee beautiful a little piece of heaven with rolling hills, and a beautiful lottie lot of hard work gone in there. Just love the bricks.

[vee]

I forgot to say how much help and encouragement I've got from this website.
I don't think I would have done as much without coming on here and reading all the advice and enthusiasm that you have all given me. It really has kept me going.
Thank you all very much.

[triffid]

Thank you for sharing this -- what a cheering vision on this dark, dreek day!


And what a view!

:)

[cornykev]

:) :)  Looks like heaven a few cans of stella with feet up lovely looks like a plot in Spain with them views, and the bricks just set it of in the other picture give yourself a pat on the back and go to the top of the class.
P.S you sure that is in  the north west. lol ;D ;D ;D

                May the corn be with you.

[lorna]

Vee. Fantastic, can't add much to what has already been said but thanks for sharing with us. You must be so proud.
Lorna.

[redimp]

Wow - wish my lotty had a setting like that - not that I am disatisfied with mine mind :)