Where exactly is your lottie?

[redimp]

If I haven't said already, and I haven't got time to traul through allthe posts, I have a plot on the Wragby Road allotments in sunny Lincoln.  Lovely patch of green with a prison on one side, housing on two others and a small area of scrub that is rapidly turning into a nature reserve between the lotties and Tescos.  Great bunch of fellow lottiers and if you crane your neck you can see the cathedral which is close by and whose bells let me know that I have spent too long considering the weeds.

[redimp]

[katynewbie]

Wow....spread all over the place aren't we? My plot is in Royton, Oldham. Just behind Royton and Crompton school. It's a small site with 20 plots, most people have been there since god was a boy. I had my name on the list for nearly four years and now the pigeon man has been given his marching orders, so I get the plot ;D ;D ;D, didnt realise that birds pass seeds straight thru.......I have loads of corn growing amongst the other horrors!!
Anyone this side of manchester??

[fbgrifter]

Hayfield, High Peak, Derbyshire....uphill allotmenteering!

http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Derbyshire/pictures

[Roy Bham UK]

 ;D Hey Dan is this a record? Started 18th Feb 2004. :o 231 replies :o read 8484 times :o WOW and I don't think I have responded to this one or did I ??? ;D

Over 16 months old and still going :o ;D

[Mrs Ava]

And whatever happened to Boxingtortoise?  :-[

[weedbusta]

hello. new plotter from east end of Glasgow. haven't got a scooby doo what I'm doing half the time, but enjoying turning a jungle into something that resembles a plot! other guys around me have been really good with advice...... especially when they realised I'd been watering my totties and drowned them!!!  gave them a gud laf,I'd be glad to hear of anyone else local who knows at least a wee bit more than me.

[fairyandthetroll]

hi is anyone on the sherborne vally allotments in coventry.
Been there since last september and turned a brambled mud slide into something resembling an allotment now.
We are just going to harvest our first spuds(if wire worm hasnt got there first)
We have a few broad beans( covered in black fly.)
Perpetual spinach which no bugs want.
Welshonions which were donated to us and are now thriving.
leeks are doing ok but very small at the mo.
And we are just about to start on our second adjoining plot and turning it into a fruit orchard.
We are still tackling getting the brambles out either by hand or by glyphosate but to be honest we are trying to be organic but its a struggle to start with isnt it!
We are also trying to make this a kiddy friendly allotment as we have 4 kids ranging from 22 months to 13years.And would like them to be very activly involved but at the mo theres too many stingy nettles there as well but im sure we will get there.
And finally we are trying to go with the no dig method as well.We have an endless supply of pallets and my hubby has been digging merrily since last september on each bed and we now at the moment have 15 beds and still digging.
So its organic,child friendly,no dig for us,
any advice?
Does anyone know about companion planting and have maybe a list of what goes with what as i know a bit  like onions and carrots go well together but need and eager to learn more.
The down side so far is we both work, me nights and my hubby full time days and we only get a chance to go up there at the weekend for a few hours.Also we have had a big attack of slugs well i think they are slugs that have ate all my cabbages cauliflours, garlic, my first lot of seedlings of carrots.I dont want to use slug pellets but it look like im going to have to for my own sanity.
It has been hard work as you all well know but it has been so satisisfying watching the mud slide turn into something quite beautiful(well in our eyes it is)
And the satisfaction of growing something ourselves and watching it develop has been brillient and priceless.
Ok we have been there 10 months now and maybe not too much to show this year but i have my dirty mud clogged fingers crossed that next year we will have an endless supply of fruit and veg.
Happy lottying to you all.
love
fairy and the troll.

[redimp]

Redclanger - my niece now lives near Wragby and is a teacher at a nearby school.  Lincoln fan.  What can I say?  Spireite here  :)

FBgrifter  - Hayfield!  Isn't that otherwise known as Royston Vasey or am I barking up the wrong wotsit  ;D

F & T - I'm trying to be no dig too as my back is sooo painful.  Companion planting is my thing too.  Bob Flowerdoo is good at it and you can get his book from the library.  I put slug pellets into containers so they are safe from my dog and the kids of course.  You need something with a tightfitting lid and then just make a hole in the side.  You can put beer in them as well which I think sluggies prefer  :)  To save digging you can plant in builders rubble sacks and containers too (see piccy)

My school is not far from Wragby (Baumber) - have to drive through every morning.  I am sure that we will meet up at some time.  :)

[Derekthefox]

Hello fairyandthetroll!

I too am on the sherbourne fields allotments, down at the bottom, backing onto B and Q. This is my fifth season, and just beginning to get some order. Are you adjacent to Four Pounds Avenue, or am I thinking of someone else?

Hope you enjoy this forum, I think it is great, so much valuable advice and friendly folk.

Remember there is also a chatroom, easy to get into and safe! you can see if anyone is in, just by refreshing your main forum page.

[fairyandthetroll]

hi derek the fox,
champion found a fellow lotty peep thats local.
Yep me and hubby has the two plots that are next to the gate on four pounds avenue.behind the blue gate is ours.
we get up there every sunday around 8 am til 12.
I try to get up there during the week too but its difficult.
Hey we sat down to dinner today with some of our own spuds and broad beans....true satsfaction.MMMnnn yep wire worm has got into most spuds ....boo...hooooo :'(
But hey not bad for a firsty lottyer eh ;D
you will have to come up and see us as dont know which lotty by b&q your at....they all look so nice and neat and trim up your end across the river.We call it the posh end.
Still tackling the bramble with a strimer at the mo but its hard going and too mant to dig out by hand and they seem to love the glyphosate and are thriving on it.Ahh well. we will keep on diggin keep on diggin what do we do we dig dig.Sorry my son is into finding nemo film watched it too many times.
My kids are getting into alan titchmarshes gordon the garden gnome on cbbc. its very good and even i am getting hints and tips on gardening .
from it.
Thanks to wardy for that also,
good idea planting in them bags never thought of that.They look like they like it.
And yep im looking in the library at the mo.Just got kim wildes book on gardening with children and practical allotment gardening. Also mr ts how to be a gardener too.
Will look out for mr flowerdews books i forgot about him being an organic gardener pleb head am i .
got to go been up there too long in the sun today ouchhhhh.!!! :P
thanks again

[DolphinGarden]

Well,

13 pages and 240 replies, I don't have the time to catch up at the moment, but I have just discovered a burgeoning allotment just starting up 200yards from the house here

http://www.dublin.ie/dolphinsbarngarden/

also, same place

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69380&condense_comments=false#comment105149

There's a meeting tomorrow in the local library so will know more then...

Ciaran

[intastella]

hiya,any1 from oldham?i havent got an allotment but every house iv lived in (4 in past 11 yrs,3 of em in the past 5!the first thing that gets sorted is the garden,and these have ranged from 40ft x 25ft to 4ft x 4ft!(amazing what u can squash in there!) this ones about  10 ft x4 ft  and is going great guns,proper chuffed! ;D  ;D

[intastella]

thanx wardy :)
stayed on the site forra bit (got to bed 8a.m!)after i posted y message,gawd your a knowledgable lot!im pretty hit an miss mesel,i find the less interfearence from me the better my veggies do!think this years doin well coz im in a new house an its the right house,u know wot i mean?(uh-oh..watch out,theres a hippy about! ;D)anyway,glad i found this site coz iv been borin all me townie mates ridgid with it!be a different story when theyre troughin me delish curries eh?! :D

[intastella]

 ;D ;D ;D sussed ow i picked me name up then !;D ;D ;D

naw,im not a squatter,u wouldnt think it tho,state of my house sumtimes!  ::)  ;D i live private rented and my last 2 houses got sold from under me,AFTER i made em fit to live in!but if that hadnt have happened i wouldnt have this place,u know when u walk in sumwhere and it just feels rite?(feel the vibes man!)just hope the the people who have my old houses are appreciatin the herbs i left em..(not hippy ones!! ;D ;D)

[intastella]

p.s, your ded rite about this site,bin flippin thru different threads and lookin at all the pics,fantastic!and already feel like i know a few of u!everyone seems so friendly and willin to share their knowledge and intrests(and cr*p jokes ;D!)just wot we need more of in this world

       :) :-* :)

[Andy H]

some crap jokes are the best, the more people you can offend the funnier they are :o

[intastella]

heh heh!i totally agree...unless your bernard(i love me mam,me)manning! ;D

[Mrs J]

Hi, I'm a newbie to this site and the whole lottie thing.
Hubby and I took over a Guinea Garden in Edgbaston, Birmingham just a couple of weeks ago. It's absolutely wonderful but boy, have we got our work cut out for us! Goosegrass, ground elder, nettles, brambles, you name the bu**er, we've got it! Have got a fab shed though which is such a bonus.
We plan to grow veg, herbs, some flowers and a bit of fruit but right now, we're just trying to find the ground!
There's an open day this Saturday and the Charirman of the Committee said he wants us to show our garden as an example of work in progress. That's one way of putting it!
Mrs J

[Nathan]

Hello all
I really like this forum.   My allotment is in Alsager, Cheshire, just behind my house. (Gate in hedge)  Sounds like good luck but really it was the main reason we bought the house.  So I can pop out at night to pee on the compost.

[amphibian]

My plot is in Hawkenbury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.



Our site is the last field in Kent (indeed it used to be Sussex), on a gentle south facing slope, nice slightly clayey loam soil, beautiful views out across the High Wield's rolling downs, wooded slopes and oast houses. The place would be Eden, if it weren't for the bloody couch grass.