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hello all, long time no post

I rang the secretary of our site today to confirm that I would be leaving the allotment and giving up the final 5 poles of my original 10 pole plot.

I'm a bit bummed about this as, among other things, my globe artichokes are really doing well and I've wanted them for years.

The garden at home is more of a storage zone at the moment following the unutterably hellish home renovations that we carried out last year.  Most of it is paving anyway with no room for veg of any real size/quantity.

My OH will be running the shop single handed soon and I'll be working there on Saturdays from now on leaving us one day of rest to do everything, including the bleedin' housework and ironing shirts for the following week of work in the office.

And to add to it all, in early December, this lithe, delicate english rose <cough cough> (more like a strapping farm girl practiced at wrestling unruly calves) managed to damage her back so badly that walking was impossible without slow, careful assistance. I'm still tanked up on pain killers and anti-inflamatories.

So, with a waiting list at the site and the amount of work there getting bigger and bigger I though it prudent to call it a day.

We were given a greenhouse last year - which is still in pieces - which will be erected when the weather gets better so salad veg, tomatoes and possibly (please god!) aubergines can be grown at home.  OH's chillies will love it too. 

I will doubtless be on here again when the greenhouse is up!

Nice to hear from you again.. hope things are better this year, and you can grow Aubergines in a greenhouse! We do!
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I feel for you. I am dreading the day I have to make that call. Hopefully not for many years :-[ With a bit of luck things will ease over the next couple of years for you to get another plot...?

Never mind, look at it as moving on to a different stage and when the greenhouse is up you'll have lots of fun, I'm dead jealous of people with greenhouses!!!  :D

Keep smiling - I was gutted when I had to give up my first plot due to life the universe & everything.  Five years later I've got a new plot on a new site & loving it all over again.

Give it time ( & rest that back, don't be tempted to do too much too soon), the world will turn again & who knows what's waiting for you inthe future..

K

Could you not get someone to take it on for a short/long term period then its there if you can take it on again.  ;D ;D ;D

Hi bennettsleg,

Sorry to hear your in such pain, allotments are in the blood and now you have been bitten as corneykev says think of this as a holiday from having an allotment. You never know you might win the lottery and be able to retire you a place with a couple of gardeners :)

Keep your chin up.

Cam

Thats a real shame. Still you were realistic in giving the plot up. I hate to see plots 'go to pot' when there are people waiting for one.

Perhaps when you get your garden sorted out you could start a little veg patch there? Keep your hand in until you feel up to taking on an allotment again.

All the Best

GA