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!
Will be two years in may.
Dusting, whats that then...do you mean with Derris powder?! Hahaha!
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
One year one month -which is why you shouldn't pay attention to any advice I might give ;D
Snap.
9 months for us too, am hoping next year I'll actually know what I am doing!
:D
7 years/ shades x
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.
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)
Just over 2 years, and it's not looking much better but it is hopefully prodaucing more!
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.
only 4 months so still got a long way to go
seem to be getting more and more enthusiastic by the day ;D
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
1 year and 5 months ! still lovin' it.
6 months here and 4 months at a site last year in Kent before we moved, and I absolutely flippin' love it :D
5 years for number 1 three years for number 2, prior to that on 10 acres XX Jeannine
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.
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!
This allotment, 4 years about now.
I had one with dad in Sutton, Surrey and we had that one for about 5 years.
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.
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!
8)
On my 3rd plot in 4 years. My firstplot was only for 3 months. After clearing it & preparing it for sowing - one became available closer to home. The 2nd plot lasted 2 years. Having not been cultivated for the previous 5yrs I had poor crop the first year but better the 2nd.
My current plot I have had for 1 year. Never planted anything last year - just clearing and preparing it for this year. Better location, better soil, better everything - hopefully this should be my best year so far.
Three years for number 1 in June, and the clay's still hard as rock! 6 months for number 2 which is totally alcoholic from all the spent hops ;D
Almost exactly 20 years for this one (can't believe it!) It's way better than it was at the start (far from perfect tho) and I love it more every year ;D
I feel like you,Wicker - I can't believe how long my lottie has been part of our life. The children all came down as 'bumps',[ was digging up parsnips from frozen ground the day before my son was born] ,then in the pram..........and now they are all strapping great things who all eat their veg.
I have had my lottie 1 year in may dusting forget that and keep the cob webs.
Four GLORIOUS years this June :) And I seem to have accumulated a couple more lotties along the way 8)
Still class myself as a beginner though :)
Been growing veg for 21 years but only had a allotment 8 years,still every is a new adventure. :)
2 years :-)
year :-[
Approx. 5 months and I reckon they have been the wettest 5 months on record!!! Up until easter weekend we had only played at working the land, now it has been well prepared and ready for action!!!!!!!
8 months.
TGF :D
Quote from: Blue Bird on April 13, 2007, 18:51:29
only 4 months so still got a long way to go
seem to be getting more and more enthusiastic by the day ;D
Same here. Got ours at christmas. Best present ever.
Almost 6 months - wow! - I can't wait to harvest something!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Louise
Louise - my radishes are coming up. You can see it is a REAL LIFE RADISH! A whole jolly row of them.
I almost died of excitement yesterday, shouting at my lottie neighbour, "Look, a radish, a radish!"
He just looked at me as if one would look at a slightly simple person and said, "Yes, plenty water o.k" ::)
10 weeks 4 days! ;D ;D
8 years, crikey that long :o :o.......you would have thought I would have gotten hold of this 'lotmenteering lark by now! ;D
Oh and emmy, I STILL get a thrill out of seeing my seeds pop up..............my OH thinks I am quite mad! ;)
9 days!
Had two years without thanks to moving, family,renovation etc & 6 years at previous site.
Starting again from scratch is a bit of a downer, but I know that eventualy the clay will give in. Should be in about 6 years time ::)
Plot No 1 four years, No 2 (next door to plot No 1) three years, totalling 287 sq metres. Plot No 2 is nearly all fruit - trees and bushes. Beats going to the gym, it's only 5 mins walk from home. I share it with my sons, and we are on the waiting list for a plot on another site so we can have a poly tunnel.