Look busy,

[Flighty]

the allotment police are out to check productivity -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/plants/vegetables/allotments/9477616/Look-busy-the-allotment-police-are-out-to-check-productivity.html

[Flighty]

[shirlton]

We have fruit trees but we do plant between them

[tiger47]

Being on Collier Road allotment i know all about Mr Rock and his plot.  My comment/reply to the article on the telegraph website is thus:

Mr Rock has been singled out. Take a look at some of the other plots on the site, dishevelled wildernesses comes to mind.  As far as i'm aware Mr Rock has planted dwarf or semi-dwarf varieties. Hence, there are no issues with the casting of  shade on other plots.

I would suggest Mr Rock makes some raised beds out of scaffold  boards and fills them full of compost and imported top soil. The existing soil on that site is of a poor quality anyway.

The local council is totally random in it's enforcement of plot cultivation and application of the rules. There is a long waiting list for plots yet when properties are sold in the street (Collier Road) running parallel with both Bembrook Road and Collier Road allotments by magic over the years the new owners have miraculously obtained an allotment at the bottom of their garden, bypassing the waiting list.

It was obvious to me from the start of this saga that Mr Rock would not/will not win. Better to back down, build a few raised beds and fight ' the injustice' & the unnamed protagonists (those who apparently complained/ reported Mr Rock  in the first instance to the council) from the inside.

Regardless of whether Mr Rock is currently breaking the old or newly thrashed out and imposed contract he does at least have a tidy plot which is more than can be said for some of the other plots.   

[pumkinlover]

A well balanced response tiger47