Allotments 4 All

If you have a shed pop in a fake home brew kit and what you do is add some cheap beer and something that gives them the trotts when they drink it !!

If you dont have a shed do the same with some faked bottles of beer pop them in a bucket and make it look like your keeping some up there for you to have when you pop up next time :)

(online aka illegal to use on purpose you can get something which on contact causes bowels to liquify not suggesting you use this just mentioning it  ;D )

I am really sorry to hear all this and have to admit we did experience some when still on a Hull lottie. I planted 85 winter squash plants on my pumpkin lottie and next day I went back and everyone had been cut off at the stem, I was told it was cutworms, funny they didn't miss one and these cutworms wore boots as they left the tracks all over.

We had bean fences vandalised too.Strings from the ground to the top rail had been cut off after the beans grew to 2 feet, plant, and string cut through..clever things these booted, Hull cutworms.

I had a seed stash stolen then all the packets opened in the car park and contents scattered, I was told that was the squirrels,funny though that every packet was torn exactly in half.

Poop was found among my carrots and snips bed.. foxes I was told, but they were blooming big foxes and they wiped their back sides with tissues.

Sheds were set on fire, not mine,but about  4 in the time we were there.

One cheeky chap actually took 2 partially erected greenhouses, this was after getting in a locked fenced site, he had to chuck the aluminum over the fence to his bike which had a trailer on it and to get it all  on he bent the struts.. he was  caught doing it though and finally admitted he sold the metal.

What I can't figure out is that now we are on an open site, in a heritage park,no gates, open to the public who are encouraged to come and see what organic growing is all about. We have tools left out etc and none of my neighbours have had a problem. There is a hedge of blueberries and blackcurrants  in a common area and even the fruit doesn't get taken apart from the birds and me snacking as I walk past.

I am truly sorry to hear how awful this has been,and I do hope the police will get involved.

XX Jeannine

I keep finding foot prints on my allotment.  Drives me mad especially when it is right on top of some plant I have been nurturing for months 

I wish there was some cheap way to rig up a CCTV with a movement sensor.

The middle of the afternoon is a quiet time at our allotments and seems to be when most things disappear. 

Every year around this time 'silly season' begins...kids that climb the security fences and then burn, distroy crops, break glass and slash polytunnels.   They are kids with 'no brains' that their parents have never disaplined as they are no better.   I'm sorry but i'm sick to death of having things broken, pinched and burned each year.

Last week my elderly neighbour (86 years old) had his boiler suit and plastic goggles burnt...destroying his raspberries into the bargin.

Two years ago they took my daughter's chalk (which i leave for my girls to play with) and wrote all over my shed

"you have bin robed"

.......no wonder they don't get jobs with spelling like that!


One last moan....my site is very big and over the last year the council has paid for a massive shed, poly tunnel, new paving, raised beds etc on a double plot, to be used by supervised people on probation....this really annoys me as i have commited no crime but i can't afford the luxury of these things...some punishment for them!

The day i made my last post i went to my allotment and found two plots had had their sheds burnt down to the ground.  It happened approv 2am in the morning and the firebrigade had been called.  The flames were so fierce that it burnt trees ,bushes, compost bins and raised beds around the sheds.

These people will get away with it...they always do

A year or two (?) ago, a guy was reported to have waited in his shed all night with a shotgun.

I had every sympathy with his motives!!