it's madness, I tell you!!!

[GeordieVik]

what do you think of this guys & girls?

http://www.24dash.com/environment/19472.htm

!!!!

Vik

[mandyballantyne]

Heard something about this yesterday, what I would like to know is if they have a 7x10' patch how much will they charge for a 1lb of carrots

Not sure if they have worked the cost per square inch as well as they do on the lower floors!!

Mandy

[GeordieVik]

I couldn't believe they are charging from £1000 to design your lottie for you!

Vik

[OverWyreGrower]

Green-fingered shoppers with enough available outdoor space will be charged £300 for a consultation on how to create their own allotments.

It will cost upwards of £1,000 for experts to come in and develop the patch.

So you can have a veg patch and get someone else to do all the work, and just sit and look at it.

Do they offer a "harvesting service" as well?

[mandyballantyne]

Maybe for an extra £500 they will cook and eat it for you too?

[beefy]

I dont have an allotment as such (just a greenhouse and a small veg patch at back of the house)but since I joined up here reading all the posts of those who have got allotments it seems to me that half the fun is in the planning.
So it seems that allotments are going upmarket.
Watch out for these changes at an allotment near you-
Look out for a new mobile phone mast /wifi point on your new neighbours shed.
You wont be allowed to bring a flask or keep a kettle in your shed - health and saftey you understand ,nothing to do with the new Starbucks cafe at the gate.Of course you wont need a packed lunch when MacD /KFC / Burger King etc arrive.
Farm Yard Manure will be banned - cant risk that smelly stuff getting on their designer trainers and heaven forbid into the BMW jeep.
Feel free to post any more ideas.
You can just hear it at the next dinner party "WE grew these veg at OUR allotment and our CHEF has done a brilliant job cooking them for us . I do so like the organic way of life"
Some how I think they missed the point ?

[zebedee]

I'll advise any on this forum about their allotments and veggies, and I'll only charge £200 an hour. Bargain or not?

[Nicos]

"Green-fingered shoppers with enough available outdoor space will be charged £300 for a consultation on how to create their own allotments."

I wondered where Andrewo had got too!!!

[laura g]

personally i think this was inevitable. what with all the debates raging about the environment and the impacts of large stores and food miles and all that, grow your owning is suddenly topical and therefore very sexy and Mrs and Mrs Urban Monied Middle Class want in - but with little time and little knowledge, they are happy to pay through the nose for it.

Same as the chicken thing. we've had an omlet brochure come through. those guys who do the plastic bright coloured chicken coops. got to admire what they've done - whole new market, especially city dwellers with young children who want the kids to experience a taste of the country.

i can see a whole new market opening up for 'good life' consultants. everything from allotments to home brew to traditional arts and crafts and ways of living. and there WILL be people charging extortionate rates but as long as there are people prepared to pay, is that right or wrong?

perhaps the high payers could offset free community regeneration/social inclusion initiatives???

[Flummery]

Bit like a personal trainer. Someone to tell you to run around a bit and not to pig out? Money for old rope!

Old Rope consultant?

Getting hysterical - someone throw a bucket of water over me!

[zebedee]

You're on about getting wet again, Flum!!! Phwoarh!

[madderbat]

It's the 'New Labour' Lottie -looks good, sounds good, costs a bomb!

[laura g]

haha!

Imagine a mobile to mobile phone call from Mrs Clarissa Kroniklee-Ryche 'Got to go now dahling...at the gym now. got to get to Harvey Nicks before my manicure appointment and the Personal Vegetable Trainer is due this afternoon!!!

[beefy]

Can you get D+G garden tools?

[OverWyreGrower]

Hermes gardening gloves?