Who looks after yours when on holiday ?

[Minty]

Hi All.
Just had a horrid thought. Although its a long way off we are on holiday for two weeks in August and have no idea who will look after my lottie.
My limited local family have zero interest in growing.
So what do you do at holiday time ????????.
Thanks Minty X

[crichmond]

I let the wife look after mine while I go on a sea fishing holiday.
Not because I dont want to take her but because we cant afford to take all 8 kids, so she lets me go with a couple of fishing friends.

[Minty]

I let the wife look after mine while I go on a sea fishing holiday.
Not because I dont want to take her but because we cant afford to take all 8 kids, so she lets me go with a couple of fishing friends.

OOOOHHHHH LET ME COME, LET ME COME!!.
It`s a few years since i have been but used to go myself regular and really miss it. Minty X

[lainey lou]

I'm quite freindly with the lass who has the other half of our plot so hope she'll do mine if I do hers!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Yep - I agree with Lainey - buddy up with your allotment neighbour and they can do any watering/picking as they'll be at the plot anyway...then you can return the favour for them.

[bluemoon]

Best friend and daughter and son-in-law and son and no2 daughter and no2 son-in-law and the ladies on the next plot. I've never understood why it takes this many people to do for a fortnight what I can normally do by myself.

[kernowyon]

whats a holiday?

[Two_Sheds]

what's a holiday? Never had one.

[Sue]

Hi
I've retired from taking holidays, I never totally enjoyed them anyway, hate the airport thing and the travel and once I'm there always want to come home again. I'd far rather be on my allotment. I've laid mine out so there's plenty of space for sun loungers, got lots of flowers and trees for shade in the summer and my rose arch should come into its own to provide an arbour this year. In the summer, it's lovely, take the cool bag, lots of homemade lemonade, a bit of a potter on the allotment, pick some strawberries for lunch...., fresh salad, Jersey potatoes.... with some homemade bread, then find a good book and laze away the afternoon till it's time for watering and seeing to the hens.
I don't have a scrap of garden at home so my allotment/garden is just heaven for me. Why go away? Anyway airmiles to worry about now as well!
I was up there all day in the glorious sunshine yesterday, so calming and relaxing potting up my new plants, can't wait to get up there tomorrow and so looking forward to my allotment holidays this summer.
Sue

[Hans Mum]

friendly neighbours on plot, & offer to let them take whatever needs cropping when i'm away it works both ways

[bluemoon]

Hi
I've retired from taking holidays, I never totally enjoyed them anyway, hate the airport thing and the travel and once I'm there always want to come home again. I'd far rather be on my allotment. I've laid mine out so there's plenty of space for sun loungers, got lots of flowers and trees for shade in the summer and my rose arch should come into its own to provide an arbour this year. In the summer, it's lovely, take the cool bag, lots of homemade lemonade, a bit of a potter on the allotment, pick some strawberries for lunch...., fresh salad, Jersey potatoes.... with some homemade bread, then find a good book and laze away the afternoon till it's time for watering and seeing to the hens.
I don't have a scrap of garden at home so my allotment/garden is just heaven for me. Why go away? Anyway airmiles to worry about now as well!
I was up there all day in the glorious sunshine yesterday, so calming and relaxing potting up my new plants, can't wait to get up there tomorrow and so looking forward to my allotment holidays this summer.
Sue

My idea of heaven too, Sue. I agree with every word you say. I was recently taken to task for suggesting that people should perhaps lay off the unnecessary travel and perhaps not send perfectly good items off to landfill simply because the 'old' one was no longer as big, shiny or fashionable as the neighbour's newer one. I had thought that this was a message that was gaining acceptance, but the reaction was hysterical to the point of being rabid and I have to admit depressed me so much that I was almost at the stage where I thought that my lifestyle was pointless. Fortunately a few minutes with my 3 year old grandson was enough to cure me of that, so I will be plodding on. My hols this year will be spent taking my grandson on camping trips which I hope will show him the beauty of the natural world and give him a deep respect for our planet. It's about as eco-friendly a break as I can manage and with the little one around should be fun too.

[Derek]

Thank heavens I am not alone.... Holidays for me last a couple of days then I have, quite frankly, had enough.

[Sue]

Blue Moon
Don't be discouraged, you know you're in the right, the man in the queue behind me at Sainsburys started shouting at me because I was taking the packaging off the items I'd purchased. It only took a couple of minutes and there were loads of tills free of customers. He told me I was bloody ridiculous, couldn't hear everything he said - just as well - I then said I was protesting at the excess packaging and it was wrecking my zero waste policy he went balistic - why????? Anyway entertainment for the whole store!

And Derek, I suspect that a lot of people would bow out of holidays, doesn't status have a lot to do with it, announcing to the office, you're going to Goa or somewhere exotic can be a bit of one-upmanship. Saying you're going to stay at home and not go on holiday might have you marked down as rather an oddball.I don't mind but I can see that look in people's eyes when you tell them you're spending your holidays on the allotment - and then the conversation hurridly moves along to another topic...
Sue