Allotments 4 All

Hi all after looking at pics of others peoples plots on here some of them look HUGE compared to our we have 10 pole which standard at our site and is about 5m x 50m i think! when we first got it a couple of months ago we thought do we need all this or would a half plot do but already we are thinking where are we going to put it all!! i can see us taking over the neighbours if it ever comes up  :o

Mine's only a 5 rod (half plot). I'm thinking I'll have to grow stuff upwards (squash and cucs) on a trellis type thing to make more room, and have limited myself to 1st and 2nd early spuds only this year. :(

well i was trying to limit things but the allotment association told me not to buy any seed spuds as they always had left overs.  When i entered the shed full of committee members all recommending different types i ended up with 15kg and about 6 or 7 different types! thats a 3rd of it gone for spuds alone!  :o

Mine is about 300m² (30mx10m) and is a half plot (half of the biggest plot on the site).  I want the other half now (have had my half for two years).

I don't know what a pole is but both of mine are the same size which is are 22feet wide x180 feet long,XX Jeannine

A rod is 5.5 yards (or 5.0292 meters or 16ft 6ins) and I think a pole is another name for the same.

Oh dear, just worked it out. You could fit about 15 of Hazelize's size allotments in our garden! No wonder I am exhausted!

Ours is 5 square rods (poles) which is, I have just learned, half a plot.

We've only got about half of it to cultivate though as 1/4 is taken up by a big pile of rubble and a couple of elder trees, and another 1/4 taken by the ramshackle greenhouse.

I'll try to find a decent photo later.

I thought piccy,s of other plots looked huge. my full plot is (in old moneyI,m showing my age) 20' W by 60' L good job we are noy allowed a shed we wouln,t have room to grow anything
margaret :'(

Don't know what a pole is either but mie is stated as being a half plot on the tenancy. Got my eye on the neighbours!  ;)

We have a standard size plot but it's only 55ft x 25ft - after just one year I want more space! 

well in old money ours is 15' by 150' i think there are 3 feet to a meter ish! nice and long but could do with a bit wider i think :)

mine's 90 feet long, 38 feet wide at the back and 68 feet wide at the front.
and apart from one 13x5 foot bed, all of it weeds ::)

Quote from: norfolklass on February 28, 2007, 16:51:40
mine's 90 feet long, 38 feet wide at the back and 68 feet wide at the front.
and apart from one 13x5 foot bed, all of it weeds ::)

Look at it this way: you've already cleared 65 square feet - not bad going!

Don't know if you can see this, but it tries to show how nice it is to have reduced from 2 allotments to ones own homefront.

I can now hoe in my nightwear!! And, thankfully, we don't get vandalised. Except by other peoples cats.

That looked a loverly village Tim   :)till ya mentioned ya nightwear :o :-[ :-\ and you init!. ::) ;D

Wow! (The house...not Tim in his pj's)

cj :)

You shouldn't brag about it Tim, esp. not inyour nightwear!
:-X