Allotments 4 All

It is Easter and have to go and visit grandchildren and family.  I am half way through digging a bed and find I am getting allotment withdrawal symptoms.  The next time I can really spend a day there is next Thursday, apart from a quick visit to the doctor to check my blood pressure.  I have a weeks holiday in May to France, and hopefully will not spend all my time wishing I was ON THE ALLOTMENT.  Does anyone else feel the same excitement at making sandwiches and a flask and a lovely free day to spend at the allotment.  All friends and meals out are cancelled as they are so boring.  At least today I can watch my seeds growing on the window ledge and in the plastic greenhouse.  Just sent OH off for more compost.  I am afraid it is not only seeds anonymous but allotments anonymous.

Same here, even found myself calling from cyprus last year, to make sure the people left at home were watereing my plants on the plot. ::) Luckily for me my plot is just outside the garden gate, so i get to pop in and out when i like.

Yes, my garden has completely taken over my life - I have to tell my friends that I have nothing interesting to say of late, unless they want to hear about my pea and lettuce seedlings... :)
Also, I've arranged to visit my family tomorrow and I'm hoping it *won't* be a lovely sunny day, or I'll wish I was in the garden. Got more beds to dig! Got a russian vine to deal with! Got a hedge to trim!

It seems to have done at times! Not that I mind!

Is it when you wake in the middle of the night and start planning what you are going to on the allotment in the morning............ ;D

I went to the allotment for 10mins this morning (to let the chucks out), and came back 2 hours later all sweaty and smelling of manure.
So i guess yes is the answer.

Yes, and becuase the weather was so bad on Friday and family etc won't get there till mon at earliest, that'll be a week since I got down there. thank goodness we have both  got week off.  Can't spend it all on plot cuase kid will create but would like  to, have got to finish that bed and get those spuds in.  AAARGH !

Lushy x

It is still light, we have had dinner, do you think OH will take me up for a quick look.  Will see sister tomorrow.  I really need a quick fix of allotment.

We have got to the stage now where we only shop or visit on rainy days. We always go for the day if we can and cos we can. While Mom was in hospital I really got withdrawal symptoms cos since she went to the residential home all our time was ours apart from the days we visit her.. Being in hospital we had to go see her every day and it was an hour journey there and another hour back.( She's worth it)
We have spent a day up there today and are going tomorrow for the day. I wake up in the night and I start thinking of what I'm gonna do up the plot on the next day. Tone does too although he won't admit to it.

  Sorry, it did and I've had to let it go  --  next Friday in fact,  feel sad  -- but after

  I gained my lottie, and as  my  OH wasn't  able to help, we moved to a garden

   2 times ' plus' lottie width -  and even longer !  , that I realised  ' something had to give !

    Planning my garden / vegie patch with OH now, but that includes days out for us both

    for ' free time ' ,  do know how you are all feeling - the  'urge '  is still  there,  but at home !

yep addicted to the garden, i plan to visit a friend this week and will be picking the day the weather is forecasted to be yucky ::).

Trouble is I quite like the allotment in the rain, if it is not too heavy.  The weeds come up more easily and I have a lovely willow tree I can shelter under.  Think I will have to give up tonight as it is getting dark, but will get up early tomorrow and then do all the visiting after a couple of hours of relaxation.  I do have many allotment friends, but we just have a quick chat and I do not have to entertain them or cook for them.  Well I am an old age pensioner now so perhaps I am allowed to be selfish for once in my life.  Grandchilden think perhaps Nanny is retired she should be waiting at home for a visit, but 'naughty Nanny' is always on the allotment, playing tennis or walking with the ramblers group.  Sadly the allotment seems to be a punishment for them as they only like the park and playing football.  Spending a day or weekend with people that don't walk or garden just talk and eat all day drives me mad, I really think that as I have got older I have become very anti-social, and I don't really care.

Simple answer NO

It is my life ;D ;D

I used to love doing the food shop but now it's done online to give us more time at the lotty.
Janet

I am totally addicted. I am always thinking about what the next project is. Apparently I talk about beetroot and carrots in my sleep. Even if the weather isn't good I am still wishing I was at the allotment.  ;D

Yes, but i love it. If i only go for a cup of tea i feel better when i come home, and it much much better than being addicted to day time telly! ok it's no good for my seed addiction but thats something i'll live with ;D

I knew it was getting pretty bad when I was seriously ill in hospital last year, and apparently moaned to my OH that I was fed up with slipping in and out of consciousness because when I managed to read a bit of my Kitchen Garden magazine and then drifted off, so I couldn't remember the bit I had read and had to keep re- reading it!  ;D

OH said he could tell when I was getting better because I asked him to bring in my grid pad so I could plan my rotation for the next year....... ;)

Love it,love it love it.

yep.totally addicted to my lotty

my allotment makes all other aspects of my life better. Thats why I love it.

My name is Stan and I'm an alloholic. THERE I've said it.