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Several of the plots on our site are almost empty at the moment and most have less than 50% cultivated. 
Only three allotments are full.

So I am interested if this is a national trend.  Please include green manures but exclude weeds.

Thank you for voting.

Mine is about 45%, deliberatly so, as I have just completed my first full year on the plot I wish to 'tweak' the layout a bit, I am pleased with my first yesr but plan to be even more productive next, especally the back end and into winter.

Regards Ian

About 65%

Strawbs
Asparagus
sweetcorn - half preaped
rasps
leeks
garlic
winter onions
winter broad beans
multiplier onions
canbbage

Mine is full but thats because I havent cleared some areas yet.  Once I have cleared the squash bed and pulled the last of the toms up I guess Ill be at around 60-70%.

ive got about 25% of the allotment (s) cultivated at the moment

Got leeks, sprouts , just planted winter onions and garlic.

The cultivation figure does not include soft fruit etc which covers about 30% of the space

Very little atm, about a row of assorted brassicas, a couple of half-rows of parsnips, a row of Sarpo Mira potatoes there's a fennel left and some Catawissa tree onions... that said this is the gap bit of the year, sweetcorn is in the freezer, most of the potatoes are in slugs I think, but I've got a load in store that seem to have stop succumbing to  blight following aggressive checking and disposal... but the broad beans, garlic, elephant garlic  aren't in yet, and a big chunk will be going to fruit, some from pots I have at home, the raspberries will be ones in the ground at home at the moment (they're blocking access to the asparagus patch), but most of one plot will be going into hibernation under a thick layer of manure for the winter....

Beetroot
Parsnips
Leeks
A few Carrots and Springies
Cabbages
Kale
Pak choi
Celery
Celeriac
Pumpkins
Spuds
Strawberrys
Newly planted Winter Onions
:blob7:   :wave:

Do I get two votes as I have two allotments ( both 100% cultivated) :happy7:

Kale
Brussels
cabbage x1 (I don't grow spring cabbages)
carrots
PSB
dwarf French beans
winter onions about to go in
Swiss chard
parsnips
leeks
Christmas Charlotte potatoes Maris peer potatoes
Garlic about to go in

Beetroot
Carrots
leeks
Parsnips
Strawberry's
Asparagus
Brussels
Swede
Garlic (to go in)

Chinese broccoli, PSB, thin French beans (that need lifting), lettuce, winter spinach just sown, a complete bed of phacelia, early garlic with more to plant out soon, some poorly cropping soya beans, green courgette, yellow courgette, runner bean roots to be lifted to overwinter soon, a bed of winter green manure mix just germinating, an overflowing bed of raspberries still delivering, rhubarb, various varieties, gooseberries various varieties, a bed of pumpkins cropped this afternoon so the bed will soon be free - maybe for autumn broad beans, chrysanthemums, sunflowers (all toppled over) parsley, leaf beet, winter radish, dill, two separate stands of ruby chard, a bit of carrot and some immature rows of mizuna, texcel, pak choi, radish and spring onion.
My problem is finding space!!

ETA a narrow bed of four different strawberries too.

Mine is 100%, but mostly weeds I am ashamed to say, and I need to have a huge autumn clear up.......

Same here, big bonfire soon.

Most of mine is in use, just because there are lots of things you overwinter, and they pretty much sit there till you eat them like winter radish, radicchio, leeks, PSB etc etc.

But I suppose as we get to late winter they start to look empty cos we've eaten it all! And you can't start anything new off till Spring, that's the depressing side to winter I always feel. 

turnips/swede
carrots still to pull/ 1 lot covered as they went in a bit late but seem to be doing well with the extra warmth and wind protection.
brussels/cabbage/kale and some patty pans under cover.  No frosts here as yet, but must admit it won't be long me thinks.
onions/garlic/shallots/ broad beans and green maure about to go in.
I have 3 half plots (no full plots on this site)  about 60% for most.  Doing a bit of re organisation this winter on one, as this as most of the fruit on.  Some needs moving as a bit overcrowed.  Need to move the polly tunnel to a more sheltered position  :BangHead: not looking forward to that job as I'm going to try and make a new cover for it. :BangHead: :BangHead:

Mine isn't an allotment, it's in the garden - do I count?!

Haha to exclude weeds!!

Anyway, about 50%.

I have potatoes waiting to be lifted (cut the haulms down today), early and late sprouting broccoli, kale, swedes, spinach beet, beetroot, carrots, parsnips, runner beans and french beans still just about hanging on with a crop, courgettes under polythene, a bit of manky rocket, row of zinnias, last bit of sweet william still flowering, cut the sweet peas down today, various herbs. Broad beans waiting to go in, ditto shallots.

If you count greenhouse and fruit cage, that would take me up to 75%.

I clicked on 45% but totally forgot about the fruit (strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb, currants, gooseberries, plus plum, apple and pear trees). Counting these it's more like 70%. In the beds I have:

PSB
Parsnips
Sweetcorn (about to come out)
Beetroot
Sweet peas
Spuds (about to be dug up)
Leeks
Garlic
Winter onions
Chives
Celeriac

That's loads! Much more than I thought!

Well, there are the permanents which I guess take up 20% of space (rhubarb, herbs, artichokes, raspeberries, strawberries and gooseberries.
Just ripped out the pumpkins so a bit tidier now.
STill growing:
winter caulis, spring cabbage and broccoloi, swiss chard (starting to pick), lettuces, pak choy, chinese cabbage, leeks (3 sizes), 3 Brussel sprouts and 3 winter cabbages (we don't eat much), radish and a few beets left. There is some rocket growing by lteslf which I picked some of yesterday (delicious) And the peppers are still ripening some fruit and there are a few beans still on the plants but they will be finished soon.
I am slowly digging over the rest ready to manure it.

I forgot the PSB, mind out for your nutty neighbour Borlotti when your lighting your bonfire.     :drunken_smilie:

Ours is only about 40% full but that's only coz we took on a new plot on the 1st August.  It was jam packed with weeds and fruit bushes. We now have 2 raised beds with with winter onions/garlic/brassicas/chard/spinach, plus 4 rows of broad beans, 2 rows of strawbs and several herbs that we have transplanted from previous plot (which is now overgrown and very sad looking).  We have dug deep and seem to be winning the battle against the bind weed and ground elder, although i appreciate it's probably dying down for the winter.  We have transplanted a young apple that has taken well, plus rhubarb and a blueberry.    OH even has a row of autumn spuds which are now covered in fleece to protect from the colder nights. 

We're looking forward to spring so we can get growing again, hopefully next year will be a good one for all!

Overwinter onions and garlic
Winter lettuce
Spring cabbage
Winter savoy cabbage
Xmas caulis
Spring caulis
Kale
Leeks
Spring onions
Swede
Brussel sprouts
Parsnips

permanent stuff takes up about 50% of currently cultivated space (not including paths).

still have
carrots, parsnips, leeks, sprouts, cabbages, broccoli,
onions/garlic in for next year.
if I'd filled out the survey last week i could have added beans (runner ad french) to the list but got a frost so they went in the compost bin

I have:

Soft fruit, rhubarb and fruit trees.

I have a poly tunnel that has summer lettuce, sweetcorn, turnips, cape gooseburys, winter lettuce, miners, lettuce, cornsalad, hardy spring onions  etc. If you want to see a picture there is one here:

http://notjustgreenfingers.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/garlic-bread-and-general-tidying-up-at-the-allotment/

Outside I have some sweetcorn and cucumbers left (until the frosts lol), kale, spinach, spring broccolli, brussells, parsnips, celeriac, swede, leeks, spring cabbage, winter cabbage, red cabbage, Jap onions, cauliflowers, asparagus, globe artichokes, jeruselum artichokes, carrots and garlic ...(I think that's all, i'll add to it later if I think of anything)  Broadbeans to be sown shortly.

Amazingly, my wildflower patch is still flowering lovely at the moment (until we have frost) you can see it in the summer here if you want to:

http://notjustgreenfingers.wordpress.com/allotment-flowers-with-pictures/     (about half way down)

and here:

http://notjustgreenfingers.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/stop-and-smell-the-roses/

If I'd used my head when I first took over the jungle, then it would be more than the 60% it is now.  My biggest mistake was not putting to bed, so to speak, those parts I wanted as paths rather than for growing.  So I wasted time weeding, re-weeding, and again ...rather than on the actual growing.   These days, I dig/weed/dig and then covering with double plastic ...and do it once, but thoroughly; I reckon I'll get the other 40% up and running by 2014...but then it was always going to be a 5 year plan.