Hi Guys,
Hypotetical question to get the little gray cells working!
Q - If you had to walk away from your plot tomorrow, what would you do differently?
Would you want a different sized plot?
Would you lay the plot out the same way?
What would you keep from your old plot?
Cam
Mmmmmmm!!
Considering I have been trying for the last twenty to thirty years to get my plots as I would like them I guess I would more or less do everything as I do today.
That is having learned by my numerous mistakes why change anything??.
Then again as I do every year around July/August time when all the problems are about e.g. Blight,White rot etc ...............I always say
Right!!! this is my last year at this game!! ;D
Only to find come Oct/Nov I'm out with the spade and starting again ;)
I would try to find another one and if that was not to be, I would find a way of growing at home, even if it meant in pots only.
I year when we were moving house we had to live across the summer in an apartment, it had a long balcony the length of the property but only 4 feet wide, I gew tons of stuff in pots and that fed my habit, mind you we could't move on the balcony, but we managed to grow enough for 2 of us that summer.
Given the thought, we are actually going to do that this year in the tiny garden I have anyway, I am curious to see how much I could grow at home if I had no other choice.
XX Jeannine
build my greenhouse sooner instead of waiting 2 years through laziness.
I would like the allotment we had when I was a lad back in the 50's which was our back garden, I remember my Dad growing all the veg we needed untill me and mi mates got at the peapods, and just a word about manure my dad only used our hen, pigeon and rabbit poo nothing was wasted :)
I would have planted an asparagus bed. I think about it every year, then think about the two year wait.
THis is my first allotment ever, I think what I would change would be that I had requested a full size one first off, and also that I left the grass in the pathways so I cold mange it better, but there is still next year.
Not had mine long, but would put my onions somewhere else, rotavate the lot from top to bottom and dig out the awful and somewhat excessive number of gooseberry bushes!and evict Frank and his mates the 8 legged freaks in my shed! ;)
get one that doesn't get a lake at the side ;D
Walk away from my plot, Cambourne........they would have to carry me off kicking and screaming!!!!!!
Same here.....starting to look longingly at a third as nearly finished clearing the second. Why do you always run out of space! They are like Tardis's in reverse. They look big when you first take them on and then once they are cultivated it seems like there isn't enough room. I want extra space for a polytunnel!
Would of taken on another plot before waiting lists came into existence
I'd have got in a load of fruit trees from a specialist, and replaced all the rasps and strawberries. That way I'd have had a decent fruit crop by now.
Hi Robert... posted the Magnum yesterday when the site was down... got a ticking off from the missus... who says I'm giving too many of our favourite away!!!
I'd not wait until I was thirty to start... ;D
Thanks. I was worried yesterday; I thought it might be my machine somehow.
I would have got a shed and greenhouse sorted out last year.
Raised all the beds and put in permanent walkways.
i would get one next to the road so we can get manure more easily ( have to barrow it for miles well it seems like miles )
alan
The Magnum Bonum turned up this morning, thanks!
:) these are all the answers i would expect from such commited gardeners ;)
I ask only because I face a choice.
I am considering moving home, only 30 miles but its enough to lose my beloved plot.
I have added myself onto the waiting list where i am considering going to and i should be able to grow some veggies in my newly enlarged garden (sandy soil) as well as having a greenhouse at home where i can potter around day to day. I have been fretting about all the plants i have put in my lotty and how best to proced for next year and i am all of a tizzy about what to do for the best for what to plant this year (it was going to be low maintance planting anyway) but if and when we move it might be june/july and i will only be able to get back and weekends to harvest and move stuff :(
My current lotty is mine till september, i might be able to stall them kicking me off till feb which will mean that i can move my rhubarb, asparagus, fruit bushes, fruit trees etc After all i am leaving the shed, greenhouse and raised beds :)
The lotty on the new site is another brand new facility like the one i moved to 3 years ago and there is no guarantee i will get a plot when it opens later this year. Although if i were to get a plot i have a better idea now how to 'hit the ground running' which would mean that perhapse i could establish a plot quick - i am very confused !!!
Cam
Oh heck Cam, yes quite a quandry.
Maybe they will let you hang on till feb, its not like you have neglected your plot. They should respect that and the fact your leaving other useful things behind.
I wish you loads of luck with getting a lottie close to where you're moving to, and getting your perennials shifted safely
thanks star :)
Cam, do you not have the option of offering the stuff you are leaving to the new owner for a price, or is it not possible to dismantle the greenhouse etc and take it with you. As for moving rhubarb, we have moved ours around so many times in all weathers and all parts of the year even with stalks on and it has never even stopped it for a second.
XX Jeannine
I would not move Cam if its going to upset you. But surely if you do decide to go then you pay for the plot for the next year. That gives you breathing space to get thinks swopped over. You could come to an arrangement with the new plotholder that you pay for it for the year if they'll keep it tidy and just garden the clear areas. You continue to visit as and when you can to harvest the crops and to collect your stuff.
Thats what happens on our site anyway.
Quote from: Jeannine on February 18, 2008, 00:30:17
Cam, do you not have the option of offering the stuff you are leaving to the new owner for a price, or is it not possible to dismantle the greenhouse etc and take it with you. As for moving rhubarb, we have moved ours around so many times in all weathers and all parts of the year even with stalks on and it has never even stopped it for a second.
XX Jeannine
We can sell stuff off our plots to other plot holders before we go but we have no knowledge of who will have it after us and my plot will need to be cut in 2 :( I am hoping i can convince a friend of mine to swap his smaller plot for my larger one but hes not sure hes staying either.
Greenhouse is not in place yet :) so might be an option but I am thinking i might be able to get something bigger in the new garden but its something i can suggest to hubbie.
Morton its going to upset me in that i have spent the last 10 months creating a little oasis but at the same time i need to move the rest of my life on and i ignore my garden at home as there no vegies in it so its only a summer garden for bbqs and the rest of the year were not out there with is a waste so moving and having 1/2 the allotment in the back garden and having all the fruit crops on a smaller allotment makes some sence in that we might use more from the veggie garden day to day rather than when the weather is good enough to get onto the plot to pick things.
Thanks for the tips on rhubarb as i grew these from seed and the fruit is so yummy :)
Can't you dismantle the raised beds and take them too? i think you should see if you can get an extension on your time so you can move your fruit, even the fruit trees should be able to be moved you haven't had them in too long.
Would be nice to have everything in the back garden.
thanks kea
I dont think moving the raised beds is an option as there built for the slope on the plot. I have additional word which has not been used which i can move :)
I have been told that i need to speak to the allotments association but i cant see a problem as there treasurer moved out last march and still had his plot at chirstmas :( But it did make everyone angry they blamed bad organisation which i can vouch for a one plot holder left and it took 3 months for them to notice dispite being told by letter, email and speaking to one of them !