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Do you think this allotment is a bit overgrown, and it is not mine.

Yes.......lol   :)

I've seen worse.... not covered in head high brambles or self set trees.....  :)

Nothing an industrial strimmer and weed killer won't cure.

those purple flowers are amazing  ;D

Quote from: Amazingrotavator(Derby) on December 07, 2009, 17:55:45
[Nothing an industrial strimmer and weed killer won't cure.]

I agree dont keep looking at it .

just get at it,in no time it will be an allotment .

a week tops ;D ;D :o

A tad overgrown but have seen far worse.

Yes I'd say that is overgrown, can't really see any detail or order to the plot from the photo.
So who's is it?!

This was a beautiful allotment, but my lovely friend, who had to give it up because of old age, and the fact that she is registered blind, and the Council are going to rotovate it and split it into four small allotments, so wait and see what happens.

  I like the look of it, au nateral  --  better than what I inherited and it looks healthy,
     
    [ please work out my spelling yourselves ]   ;D

Borlotti, now show them a piccie of Joe swifts lottie, I hope he's done some work on it, it was a mess last time I visited.
I thought the council weren't going to rotavate any more.  ???
;D ;D ;D

No, he hasn't, haven't got an up to date photo of it, but they don't rotavate as a rule but this one is an exception, the trees the other side have got so tall that it can't be used as an allotment unless they cut the trees down.  I will look for a photo, was going to take a photo of Joe's pumpkin that has been eaten by birds, foxes whatever, and the sweetcorn that went to waste.

Right photo of me, standing on an allotment, not mine, I am just a cheat and Joe's taken in April this year.  Will try to take another photo soon as Joe's has got worse.
Here we go.

Overgrown? looks like a bed of honesty to me.  It will die back in the winter.

I had assumed it was rosebay willowherb... but hadn't looked carefully...  :-[

Quote from: saddad on December 07, 2009, 22:26:05
I had assumed it was rosebay willowherb... but hadn't looked carefully...  :-[

honestly, guv!!

QuoteI had assumed it was rosebay willowherb

I hope not especially if they are going to rotavate. :o :o   

At least you can hoe off honesty seedlings.  I use them as green manure.

Quote from: cornykev on December 07, 2009, 19:14:06
I thought the council weren't going to rotavate any more.

Quote from: Borlotti on December 07, 2009, 19:40:56
...they don't rotavate as a rule but this one is an exception, the trees the other side have got so tall that it can't be used as an allotment unless they cut the trees down.

Surely even a council employee knows that you don't cut trees down with a rotavator.

Do you think Joe will get a letter for non cultivation, I think not.    :-X :-X :-X

I don't see anything wrong with Joe's plot. It's a bit weedy, but so what. There's nothing that normal cultivation can't handle, and it's not overgrown or anything. As for the initial photo, it's more than a little overgrown, but it hasn't been left so long that brambles etc have got a hold.