Your dream allotment

[Paul Wagland]

Plus the ground force team to come and sort my plot out, get it all nice & neat ready for planting.

Tommy would just pave over everything!

[gardenplot]

Oh no wouldnt let him do that unless he was putting pathways round.

[BarleySugar]

Any plot would be lovely, ideally close to home, but anything closer than the Isle of Sheppey considered

[Sue]

I'd like the bus stop to be moved to right outside the allotment gates and a seat provided, although I might not need it if I can keep on wishing and make the buses arrive and depart on time.
I'd like them to run later in the evening so I can stay up there longer in the summer.

I'd like the council to employ proper hedge layers so the allotment hedge started burgeoning and not be stalks, stems and trunks with a frill of green on top and if that dream's not possible then I'd at least want them to stop putting their ruddy machines over the top on to the allotment side of the hedge and hack off everything to 3ft off the ground. What good is it planting new hedge plants...

Is it Snadger who's made a greenhouse heater, I'd like him to make one for me so I can keep warm in the winter.

I'd like a proper allotment shop that's not filled with chemicals and compost with peat in it and I'd like it stay open when it says it will.

I'd like to see the council get their arse into gear and allocate plots to people desperate to start and not take 8 months from rent day to work out whose not paying up. And I'd like to see people who come up for five minutes, hack a hole in the weeds and plant a courgette not allowed to keep their allotment!

Oh, and a composting loo would be most acceptable.
Sue

[jeannine]

Trust me guys, Angelina won't have much energy left after Paul's finished with her!

...mainly because he'll have her double digging, may I just add before anyone gets smutty.

What I'd love is a lottie with a few established trees with grass underneath that we could all use to have picnics or a cuppa on in between gardening.

Or to have huge plots like they do on the continent where you can stay all weekend and sleep and cook in your shed! I love the idea of families spending their free time gardening and cooking and enjoying food together.

[SarzWix]

...Or to have huge plots like they do on the continent where you can stay all weekend and sleep and cook in your shed! I love the idea of families spending their free time gardening and cooking and enjoying food together.

That'd be great My kids are always asking me if we can camp out in the shed!

I'd really like a shop of some sort on site too, apparently they used to run one in the 'committee shed' but they had problems with theft (not sure if that means the goods or the proceeds?!) and stopped running it! So there's nowhere that people regularly bump into each other and consequently people don't talk to each other much. Also means driving somewhere to buy things like compost instead of just wheeling a barrow up the path.
Access to water would be a nice thing too, even if it meant filling cans. I had a leak in my water butt last year & had to 'borrow' water from the allotment sec's IRC tank. There are a few stand-pipes dotted around, but apparently you have to buy your own pumping gear & huge hose-pipe to fill your butts up
I'd also really like to find a source of good quality, cheap, well-rotted organic matter. Some councils will sell you compost made from their garden waste collection cheaply, and in big loads. Not ours, they need it apparently, to prettify up the mess made by Tilcon quarries filled with trash
In fantasy land, I'd also like Terry Walton, Monty Don, Alan Titchmarsh & the spirit of John Seymour to all turn up & sort my plot out & leave me with a handy plan of what to do in the next 10 years