How long have you had your lottie?

[Tin Shed]

This was one of the topics of conversations at tea break this morning - so thought I would try it here.
I got my first 5 rod plot before I got pregnant with daughter No 1, who is now 20 so have been a proud owner of one plot for 22years!!! So in theory it should be really good, but it is only in the last couple of years that I have worked out how to keep on top everything.[ its now 3x5rod plots]........spend as much time down there as possible now that the children are growing up...and it beats dusting anyday!

[Tin Shed]

[spacehopper]

Will be two years in may.

Dusting, whats that then...do you mean with Derris powder?! Hahaha!

[Deb P]

9 months....long enough to gestate a baby! Now I'm getting onto sowing and planting, I'm feeling even more like a newbie, I just don't know how things are going to do in my plots soil...exciting to find out though....I hope!! ;D

[Barnowl]

One year one month -which is why you shouldn't pay attention to any advice I might give ;D

[coznbob]

Snap.

9 months for us too, am hoping next year I'll actually know what I am doing!

[angle shades]

:D

7 years/ shades x

[shirlton]

 It's about 9 months here as well for the one half plot and about 6 months for the full plot. Have just finished digging them both. This hopefully will be a good year for us all.

[markfield rover]

Seven years,and now that youngest will be at university in October I too
will spend more time ont plot,not that I'll be missing her (boo-Hoo)

[caroline7758]

Just over 2 years, and it's not looking much better but it is hopefully prodaucing more!

[okra]

About 13 years but its only in the last couple of years that I have had the time to, in my mind, do it properly.

[Blue Bird]

only 4 months so still got a long way to go

seem to be getting more and more enthusiastic by the day  ;D

[busy_lizzie]

Four years last February.  Just seems like five minutes ago. I am glad we took pics of it when we first took it over though, because you forget how much you transform it.  :) busy_lizzie

[mc55]

1 year and 5 months !  still lovin' it.

[greenscrump]

6 months here and 4 months at a site last year in Kent before we moved, and I absolutely flippin' love it  :D

[Jeannine]

5 years for number 1 three years for number 2, prior to that on 10 acres XX Jeannine

[Trevor_D]

Plot number 1 in September 2000 (just at the start of the wettest consecutive months ever recorded!); plot number 2 in January 2001.

But we took over plot 2 from Ray who had worked it for 50 years. (30 years ago we had a plot nearby which we gave up after 6 or 7 years through pressure of work and remember it as a fabulous prize-winning allotment) He took it over from his father who had worked it since the allotments started in 1910.

We're still hoping that one day we'll get all of it dug and do Ray & his dad proud.

[Suzanne]

Just coming up for three years for my first half plot - now fully tamed. And 2 1/2 moonths for my second full sized plot (in a different village) which my back is telling me has far too much to be done.

But liking the exercise without paying gym fee's - looking forward to more tasty rewards in the autumn -- yum yum!

[Mrs Ava]

This allotment, 4 years about now.

I had one with dad in Sutton, Surrey and we had that one for about 5 years.

[gingerninja38]

i got it last july but i was very pregnant at the time so only started working on it properly about a month ago, now that the baby is 5 months old and i've recovered after the birth.
i'm loving it and i take a picture every day after i've finished working to keep a record.

[saddad]

When OH was pregnant with NO. 2 we decided we needed to move out of the terrace to a three beds... I wanted an allotment but OH said Not unless it was over the back fence... he is 14 on Wednesday!
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