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Now the map is clogged up with pins, I have no idea who is relativley near me ?
Any of you lot in SE England ? Esp near Surrey ?
In in Kingston.
Never know could end up with an extra digger one weekend, or a few seeds etc ?
Hello.
Hampton Wick, me. Royal Paddocks Allotments.
:D I'm in Guildford (Surrey) just off the Aldershot road (A 323). Hi!
Helen
The Plots in Hampton Court look fantastic !
Looks like you have a nice little community going on there too.
Ours is a bit lonely really
I did know Guildford quite well...does that mean you right on the top of the hill ??
;D certainly am, Fingle. Its the site next to the Mercedes garage (we also live about 5 doors away which is handy!). Our plot is right at the top of the hill - Oxygen cylinder required! Mind you, its a lovely view.
Helen
ps spent over a year at the Royal Military School of music, Kneller Hall near Twickers many years ago and occasionally shopped in Kingston. Hubby still does!
Nope - outside of NW London now
But used to work at National Physical Laboratory many moons ago, in Teddington. Now that was an eccentric place...
Sarah.
Hey, I work there now!!
Small world etc.
You wouldn't recognise the place now I expect. New building and all. Same old mad scientists though. ;D
What an incestuous bunch we are !
Im on top of a hill in Kingston and when i go up at night ( i have a log burner in the shed ) the moon and tower blocks etc look amazing !!
I am just in Surrey next to Gatwick.
I'm in Horsham, West Sussex, not too far from Surrey.
I'm in Sutton, Surrey. Not too far from you lot in Kingston! :-)
Womble, where in Sutton? Mum is in Sutton and I used to have an allotment on Ridge Road.
Blimey !
That is close Womble (wimbledon fan ??)
Perhaps I could have your rosemary bush then !!
EJ - Sorry to have missed you - been away for a couple of weekends.....I'm out at Belmont Allotments in Sutton.....
I noticed before Christmas that you are an ex-Sutton person, so good to hear from you!
Does your Mum still have an allotment in Ridge Road or was your Dad the king of lotties?! :)
And PS Fingle - no - Crystal Palace!!
Belmont huh. We gave up the lotties at Ridge Road when my dad died, it was just tooooo sad to go there anymore as it really was his escape place. Now I have to do mothers garden and supply her with BIG pots to hold tomato plants and chilli plants!
:o Womble! I'm at Belmont allotment too, a few plots in from the 'bonfire plot' & just in front of the people who've built a large complex of shanty-greenhouses ;)
Are you new there?
james
p.s. haven't had time to post here for ages - Hello to anyone who remembers me!
I remember you Jammy! Good to see you still around. ;D
my allotment (to be) is in walworth, south london. how much more central can one get? ;)
Hello,
I'm on Tolworth Main allotments in Surbiton
Phin
my hopefull allotment will be from sutton council but i am still trying to find out how much it will cost
PHIN
I almost went for one up there !
How long you been at it ?
Perhaps you could pop down the pub with me and my lottie buddy to excahnge notes.
You have a shop there dont you ? is it any good ?
Hi Fingle,
We've been here since just before Christmas, so still finding our way really!
Tolworth isn’t a bad site - its pretty big, but getting smaller by all accounts. Its council run and they don't seem to have much of a handle on what’s lets and what’s not. Half the site is laid to grass with just the water taps sticking up â€" presumably just in case there is a surge in demand. There are quite a few overgrown unlettables. Apparently at one point it was twice the size, but much of it has been turned in to the 'millennium' park next door.
The people on the whole are friendly although it’s only in the last 2 weeks that we’ve seen people about. We got a good tip form one couple about the free horse poo at the Parkfield allotments near Richmond Park!
Yes we have a shop - it's only opened up this month so I've not had a chance to stick my nose in. It's meant to be open a 2/3 hours on Saturday and Sunday but every time I’ve been round it been closed already or we’ve been there to early! Hopefully this weekend.
What’s it like up at your spot?
Hello,
Our plot is in Knaphill, near Woking.
:)
Our site down villiers road is ok.
There also appears to be a few vacant plots, despite the apparent fever for them at the moment. The management of them is pretty appalling actually. We didnt get a skip for the rubbish like we did last year, and there are 2 gaping holes in the fence which they wont sort out despite vandalism
I want to write a letter actually
Hi Treehuggermum
You are near me (Aldershot Road). Hubby works in Woking
Helen
My (soon-to-be) lottie is on the border of Surrey and Middlesex, very near the Unigate Dairy with cows on top as you drive along A316 between Sunbury and Whitton/Twickenham.
They fixed the fence !!
Just in time for the summer holiday scrotes to pull it down !!
Hi. Our allotment is in Wimbledon. Not quite home for the Wombles.
Fingle Log burner in the shed! Wow, I'm jealous to death ;D
Easy to make Wardy !
2 Catering cooking oil tins, cut a doorway in one, make a door out of the other one.
(use strips of coiled tin left in hole and left on door to make hinge)
Stick on old car wheel hub for stability and to protect floor. add chimney, seal with concrete (or ceramic floor tile adhesive like me) et VOILA !!
Hi all!. This is my first ever post on here. Im really enjoying reading through the forum and finally found a topic I can add to!. I have just been added to the waiting list for the Walnut Tree allotments in Ham Street, Ham, and I Can't Wait!!. Have been told it will be about a year wait :'(. Roll on next year!
Hi there,
Walton-on-Thames calling,
I grew up in Twickenham , my mum had a site in the Meadway, and the Hampton hill site by bushy park,
I'm at Elmgrove in Walton now.
Katy
I am south east london - loveley smog filled views of tower blocks!
No allotment yet, but am hoping.
Got a garden in new devlopment off the Old Kent Road (the A2) It gets about 2 metres of sun for about 2 hours in the evening!
Good Luck Neil
its getting popular this lark !!
Another Womble for the collection.
We're at Martin Way next to the David Lloyd Centre; presently reclaiming 10 rods from carpet, bindweed, more carpet and marestail.
Where are you beejay?
Hello Old Central, welcome. I.m at the other end of Wimbledon, behind the Gap Road cemetery opposite the old plough Lane football ground. I was on your site once when I was studying for the RHS general certificate at Whately Ave adult education & they had a weed covered allotment there. How long you been allotmenting?
We have been allotmenting (is that the correct verb?) for fifteen months. We're just over half way down our 10 rods but we're taking our time.
We are heading towards more of a leisure garden/potager with raised beds and bark chip paths than a traditional allotment.
Well that sounds very Wimbledon! Seriously though, I'm glad you're taking things slowly. Too many people try to do it all at once & then get disheartened. We have varied between 1& 2 plots for getting on for 20 years! Some things do seem to be coming together at last. More plot holders seem to be going for the leisure garden approach. Some look so nice that I worry that the vandals we get from time to time will make a bee line for those. Happy allotmenting. (It should be a verb).
Am I too late?
Have all the other Kingston/Tolworth people now gone?
Took on a lottie in Hook, back of recreation ground, just off A3, and near to where I live in Tolworth in Feb this year.
Council threw mw off Tolworth main a few years ago to build houses, only they didn't.
Nah Im still here !
Im down near the cemetary (good nutrients !)
Bit weird about the houses thing, Id have a moan if I were you .
That Garry bloke is hard to get hold of tho
Apparently you have to fill n forms and stuff these days !
Yeh - did all that.
They then came back in October last year and said they were reevaluating demand and resources and would be back to me.
Couldn't wait for those muppets so took a plot at Hook.
on 28 May I get a call from a very nice lady who asks if I would now like to go and look at Tolworth Main site, and who then sends me a plan with my old plot shown as available.
Am sticking with Hook.
Too much effort put in to start again, even if the soil would be better... and drier in winter...
We have b*stard clay which makes de-weeding it a nightmare.
On the plus side it holds the water well.
The Hook ones near the cricket ground ?
Yeh They're the ones.
The "Management" is getting paranoid about travellers getting in and camping/stopping on the cricket pitches and/or the allotments. So now we have to unlock/lock two gates before getting in.
My plot is the last on the right if you go off road when entering the site. Lots of plots are overgrown, including both my neighbouring plots.
Have dug trenches to limit weed spread and drain the thing - hence "trenchboy"
Our shop is u/s.
Did you mention beer?
More than welcome to pop down my shed and try my home made black cherry wine in 3 or 4 weeks !
I often go for a pint after a days pottering, in Kingston
Coo - Black Cherry Wine...
You're a real pro, you are.
That 3/4 weeks wait is tickling those tastebuds.
May turn out to be cherry vinegar !!
Still, I can put it in a raffle or something hehe
I am having a plot at Cole Gardens, Isleworth (right by Twickenham stadium), went to choose it yesterday and can't wait to get started... ;)
...just checking in.
I'm Groveland Way, New Malden.
Kingston has some excellent real ale pubs
Try:
Albert Arms
Park Tavern
Wych Elm
Willoughby Arms
'spoons Cap in hand - when it reopens (11 Aug)
Malden Manor
Woodies - has a beer festival 19-21 August
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Well well.... The wine turned out to be LOVELY, now on one made from Blackberries from lottie, bubbling away nicely.
Yes I like the Willoughby and the Albert Arms, Not sure I have been to the others.
Im a Scrumpy Jack man myself (apart from my home made grog) so Im fairly limited, although Im sure Strongbow tastes less chemically now.
Good Luck with your plots people. Perhaps we can have an Xmas drinky or something.
Hello all S W London and Surrey borders folk.
Remember there is a Beer Festival at Woodies Freehouse, Thetford Road, New Malden KT3 5DX.
Friday to Sunday 19 - 21 August
Over Twenty Real Ales
Phone 020 8949 5824 for more details
I've just seen the Beer List - it looks yummy
I'm in Reigate, more East surrey than West.
Adrian
Quote from: plotofweeds on August 16, 2005, 13:22:24
I'm in Reigate, more East surrey than West.
Adrian
Then you will be at the Redhill Beer Festival http://www.camrasurrey.org.uk/redhill/beerfestival.htm
I will now!
2 years late on the thread, but did a search on "Tolworth" !!!
I got my plot on Raeburn Lotts, in Tolworth in April - Very happy with it.
It wasn't in a bad state, well, as bad as it could have been.
I thought I'd add my name to the list...
Riff...
Hi, I'm in Tolworth too at the main allotments. Got my lottie back in March, really enjoying it there, friendly neighbours and plot not too overgrown. There seems to be plans to expant the allotments as lots of new sites have been marked out - lots of demand I gather.
Anyone else still around from the area?
Well its been about a year scince I was down the plot (apart from the occasional visit) due to life things.
I now have an army of enthusiastic helpers and we have big plans......