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Hi
   I am in the process of moving plots. I didnt realise the ammount of work involved in lifting everything etc. My car looks like a skip and is full of mud and spiders from all the stuff moved out of the shed. Tomorrow it will be the shed itself, thats if it doesnt just disintigrate. Think very hard before you move it is very hard work, thats before all the digging and clearing of the new plot.
I'll keep you informed how things go.
Regards
Chriszog

Hi chriszog
It sounds a bad as moving house.
Good luck. ;D

Why are you moving? Closer to home / better security / better facilities?  Hope it's not because the site has been taken over.
Good luck anyway, I hope your new plot is productive. ;D

We moved plot this year.  Ended up leaving most things behind for the next owner, Shed, water butt, compost, Raspberries ( Autum Bliss still had fruit on, but roots snapped off when trying to dig them up)

Moved to have bigger plot, nearer home and had water.

Good luck with the move.

Lily

I will be moving  in the winter.  We currently have a plot and a half that are separated.  A vacant full plot has become available next to the half plot (and it's slightly smaller) so we are shifting to there.  Any tips gratefully received.

My tip: Rope some friends into helping by offering them beer! ;D

I'm moving to a more secure plot the old one was next to a public footpath and I suffered with a lot of theft and damage over the past 18 months. The new plot is in the middle of a much more secure area.
Any advice, get some help, my mate helped me move the shed which survived with a few cracks that were easily repaired. Re fixed the guttering in the rain on monday and moved the compsost bins monday P.M. I have still to move any plants Asparagus Raspberrys artichokes Rhubarb etc. Any advice re the moving of them would be much appreciated. The Rasps are only a year old and the Asparagus 2 years Old. I suppose that will be a further 2 year wait before any spears etc.
I will keep you updated and hope to post some pictures if anyones interested.
Regards
Chriszog

Obviously Not????

YES!! LOL! I'd be so daunted at the thought of moving, I think it would be realy useful to see pics as you go, hopefully I won't ever have to!! But still haven't heard back from council, so who knows??? Thought of diggin up the PT gives me nightmares...shudder to think...
Lottie 

Hi
   Not a good day today managed an hours digging in preperation for the asparagus when the heavens opened. Got soaked and sulked back home. Ended up painting the en-suite, theres never enough hours in a weekend?
Hopefull of some dry weather next week.
Chris

Well managed a couple of hours on plot, in gale force winds!! Still too much to do though, where I had dug and weeded is now sprouting weeds again!! ::) ::) ::) feel like I'm chasing my tail at the min!! Is now pouring with rain and am stuck in lounge with 4 children who are now mum baiting.....wait til I feed them.....gruel and slops... ;D
Lottie

Chriszog -sorry, didn't mean to seem uninterested!  Your opening mention of a boot full of spiders sent me shuddering on to another thread and I've only just got the courage to come back  ;D  As an arachnaphobe, all gardening is a bit daunting but the allotment can be downright terrorising!!  Hope everything is going smoothly - well, ish  ;D  And would love to see some pictures.

Definitely like to be kept up to date with the move. :)

Yep do post the piccies then I can see how I am doing  ;D

Thanks for the support I have taken  some pics before I started and will take some this weekend and post then. The shed is still standing after the battering from the wind and the water butt already half full. Moved a few more edging planks from the old plot on the way home from work. Also spoke to the council today and I have until the end of november before they rent out the old plot ,so rain wind or shine I'll be out on Saturday.
Fingers crossed for the weather.
Regards
Chris

Hi
A Beautiful day today and spent 6 hours on the plot.
Have taken a few pictures some in October and some today.
I finished the Asparagus bed and moved them today. The roots were huge and it took about 1 1/2 hours just to get the 10 plants out of the old bed. They are now in the new bed.
I am having trouble attaching the pics but if yoy go to
www.chriszog.smugmug.com you can view them on there.
Theres even pictures of the shed in its new home and newly constructed compost bins, can things get any more exciting???
Yes tomorrow Artichokes Rhubarb and if time Rasps.
Let me know what you think of the picture and Ill have to work out posting them.
Regards
Chris

I'm impressed, you've worked really hard.  I want a path as straight as yours.  Mine looks as though it's been on the bottle. Hiccup!  :-[

What compost did you use for the asparagus.

Lily

Have had a look at the blog Chris and it is looking good.  I do not seem to have been up to my plot for about 10 days.  Today I was on a course - The Scouts were trying to teach me a about child protection and special educational needs  ??? and I do have the important Remembrance Day parade to attend tomorrow so this weekend is a bit of a lost lottie cause unfortunately.

Never mind redclanger plenty of time yet. I will be out again tomorrow. Old boy next to me said he never starts digging until after the first frost??
Regards
Chris

That is an impressive transformation!

Artichokes moved , now only strawbs rhub and rasps.
Is it too late what with the frosts??
Chris
Ps And flowers

No chance to move anything today, severe frost here last night so just did a bit of digging. Praying for next weekend as the old plot is re rented at the end of November.
Chris
PS The artichokes i moved last weekend dont look very Happy?????

Well done Chris, you've worked like a demon...I'm sure the artichoke will pick up come the spring, and if not, they're quite easy to raise from seed. Good luck!
Lottie  ;D

Muck spreading this morning. Not ideal conditions but the farmer had dumped it accross the roadway??
Still not moved the Rhub. Rasp and strawberrys must do it sooner or the old plot will have a new owner.
Not enough Saturdays and Sundays in a week???
Chris

Rhubarb and Rasps moved today only strawbs and a few bits to go hope for a decent weekend weather wise next week. Then its all done all settled in my new home.
chris

Can I borrowyou for whenwe move ? Your exploits are makingme need a lie down  ;D

It's lovely being in a new home, so nice and cosy.  We moved plots this year, October.  Had to leave Raspberries behind for new lottie owner - they kept breaking off at the roots, we just brought the runners, which have taken well.  

Now we are here we can plan for next year. Ooh, That rhymes.  I'm a poet and didn't know it.  ;D

Lily

Well done Chris, you will reap all your efforts come the spring and summer ...

Aha Lily, is this a newly acquired skill ?

Derekthefox ;D

Quote from: Derekthefox on November 27, 2005, 17:20:21

Aha Lily, is this a newly acquired skill ?

Derekthefox ;D

At my age, any newly acquired skill is much appreciated  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ... although I would prefer it on the Allotment front, rather than on the poetry side of things.

Lily

I am sure your gardening skills are admirable too  :)

Derekthefox :D

Baggy
   Would love to be of some assistance thats if I can walk at the end of it all. The car now has about 2'' deep of soil in the back. At this rate I may start planting in the back of it in the spring.
Now theres a thought a mobile greenhouse. When it gets too warm just drive it into the shade.
regards
Chris

I'm moving stuff at the moment, and it's no fun in this weather.
Added to which the chap next to my plots hasn't cleared his ditches, which lead directly into the main drainage ditch, so mine are more waterlogged than usual.  :o
There comes a point where there is such a weight of clayey mud sticking to my boots that I can hardly lift my feet up.
Still, someone kindly commented (grrrr!) that it is really good weight training to tone up the legs, so I suppose I shall have to view the target of getting bushes into place before the weather gets really bad as a sort of workout  ;D

Well finally finished moving everything yesterday and this morning. It really is hard work in the claggy ground.
Not enough time to properly prepare the beds for the rasps so have just heeled them into a patch and will move them when I get the time.
The ground was very wet and if I wasnt against time would have stayed off it yesterday.
Very hard work Roll on the Spring??
Regards
chris