Dear Allotment Lovers,
I am writing to you from the 'PAUL O'Grady SHOW' on ITV1. We are currently on the look out for the creme de la creme of allotments up and down the UK to showcase on our programme - and ultimately find the UK's first ALLOTMENT CHAMPION.
So...
We are looking for the most bizarre allotments in the UK... Have you converted your allotment into a Swedish sauna, or a nuclear bunker?
Do you have a themed allotment..? Have you transformed your greenhouse into an illegal micro-brewery or alpine lodge? …Or do you simply have the best kept allotment or grow the worlds finest horse radish..
we are on the look out for allotment fanatics to showcase their very own plots of land, whatever the story big or small get in touch:
e-mail huw.slipper@itv.com
Call 0207 5784143
Wow, flippin eck. We're about to be famous. Well some of us with plots worth lookin at that is! ;D
Quote from: wardy on March 08, 2005, 11:46:18
Wow, flippin eck. We're about to be famous. Well some of us with plots worth lookin at that is!  ;D
Rules me out then ;) Unless they have a feature on couch grass....
rules me out too unless I half bury my children or husband maybe....
I hope they not looking to take Mick out of lotties...
Some folks have a weird sense of humour.
Or am IÂ just paranoid .. :D ..Jim
Quote from: NattyEm on March 08, 2005, 11:54:51
rules me out too unless I half bury my children or husband maybe....
What planting distances would you use? Exposed or under cloches? Manured plot or not? ;)
Get yer buckets think there's a pile of it here to be gathered :D :D ..
Dont be mentioning grass couch or owt else,Tha knows what medias like tha'll have em on thee lotty quicker than ferrets up a drainpipe. nod nod ;) ;) ..Jim
Manured and cloched of course, wouldn't want them to get cold! :)
ferrets up drainpipes is the type of thing they might like to see. You could get yourn on telly Jim. Fame at last ;D
Hope no ones growing
Wacky Baccy!!!
Would you rather people grew their own or bought it from criminals? We don't have coffee shops in the uk!
blimey,!!...have you got any cuttings?
it was a JOKE doubt any on here is growing Wacky Backy ....We has enough wid vegetables ... what i meant by pile was the horse Shi*e cos i think its all a wind up ..
With the program ... cheers Jim
Its not great weather for growing the best wackybacky outdoors. I used to grow some in a cubbyhole (well big enough to sit up in!!) in a wall in my first flat. All the walls of the cubby lined with tin foil UV strip lighting, grew some lovely stuff :)
Like growmore Said Simon a Joke ???
Not my fault you´ve got no coffee shops in the Uk
Perhaps there in lays a tale...CRIMINALS
Nattyem What can I say   You go Girl 8)
Ee Nattyem I don't know what to say other than tt! Â ;D Â
Jim do you really think it's a wind up? Â It's not you behind it is it? Â ;)
If it's not and it happens I hope it's Lily Savidge that does the allotment tours rather than her alter ego.  More fun I'm thinking  ;D
soz tulip I thought it was all your fault not. I dont grow any now, did once but nearly got caught, such a shame though, maybe better in watershed.
No fancy lotties on our plot,
I don;t think I would like my plot to be filmed - filmed isn't the right word, taken over by a tv production company with their hoards of camera people, sound recordists etc and the hassle.
Just reread the first post in this topic - fanatics I think is a dangerous word. If they want fanatics and the bizarre, then it doesn't sound like it would be a serious programme. Also, if you converted your allotment to a swedish sauna - it wouldn't be an allotment any more! And illegal microbreweries - well, would you like yours to be on tv for the police to see?
You're probably right multi, taken over would be what happens. Taken over and all your precious raised beds stomped over and compacted down, all your little weeny seedlings damaged etc etc >:(
Teresa
The Fuchsia looks Great :'(
If Paul O'Grady is doing it I don't think they had in mind doing a serious allotment programme :)
It sounds like they're after 'entertainment oddities' that just happen to be on an allotment.
Shame really, because there are enough oddities, funnies & general disasters occuring in trying to start growing stuff, nevermind the real corkers that experienced allotmenteers must have heard of / had happened to them.
I'll look forwad to a donation for the advertising (and a mention in the credits of course) :P
Re bizarre allotments. I don't know if our allotment would qualify as bizarre, in fact not sure if it would qualify as an allotment! To explain - my family and I (4 kids and a Hubbie) live in a lovely, but very small house in a lovely town. However, my parents live in a lovely, remote farm house with lots of land (being a farm and all....). After much laughter, my dad was persuaded to let us take a really rough area and clear it of nettles, brambles, barbed wire etc, and turn into an area where we grow veg. This is the strange bit, I grow veg, the kids eat dirt, build bonfires and dens, and my husband flies planes and helicopters!! Small ones, I hasten to add! Basically, it's an area where we can do our own thing and still be in one place. unusual? Yes. Bizarre, you decide!!! ;D
Is there any money in this -yes I'm a canny Yorkshire Man ;D
Where do you get the whacky backy plants from then? Haven't got a lottie will a cold frame do?
Val :D
You cant get them totally illegal Hahaha
But you can always try Hennep seed!!
Indoors In a Pot In the Warm with a Lamp above the Plant!!
I kept Budgies for a Long time One Day my daughter came home from school Hi Pap you have Wacky Backy Plant in the Garden......she dug it up repotted it...and took it up to her Bedroom to take care of it............never did find out what happen too it!!
Quote from: Val on March 13, 2005, 12:58:04
Where do you get the whacky backy plants from then? Haven't got a lottie will a cold frame do?
Ooh! Val you are awful, but I like you ;D ;D ;D How many do you want? ??? :o ;D
You can buy the seeds perfectally above board in the UK, you just can't grow them. Any hippie kind of shop will probably have them (though it may be dubious to how good/old the seed is).
Nattgyem ;)
You go Girl.....haha 8)
You see someone out there always as the Right Answer.
..If its in the bird seed I'll just go and 'weed' the garden. The seed drops everywhere, All I have grow from it is some pretty blue flowered plants would that be it? I do have others but pull it up before it has time to grow properly...Now do you think the gang of teenagers hanging around know something I don't. ...Do you wanna do some weedin' man....... ;D..Whats a hippie shop?
Val A shop which sells hippies o' course ;D
IF you find that shop let us know Ok Haha
This is Getting Wacky Haha ButI like it :D
You can't miss it. Its the orange, pink and purple shop.
Nattyem ;D
OKhaha Power to the Lotties ;)
hmm is that why they all have that colour hair?. I think I'll give the hippie shop a miss ,mine are big enough as it is.