You wait ages for a Lottie to come along...

[Effigy]

.... then you get offered two in the same week

The first is close to home and the second is close to work.

The one close to home is a massive plot (roughly 75m x 8m) and I plan to share it with my son who is keen to get into veggie growing.

The one close to work is a small plot (roughly 25m x 8m).

I am really excited about them, and can't wait to get started.

I have wanted to try the 'half-hour' allotment principle ever since reading the book, and the one close to work will be an ideal experiment for that, as I have an hour for lunch and usually just end up working through it. Now I will have somewhere to go each day.

[shirlthegirl43]

Congratulations. Look forward to reading how it goes. What a lovely way to spend your lunch - you will need to set an alarm though!!

[rustylady]

Are you taking both of them?

[zazen999]

Excellent news.

[Flummery]

Good-oh. Allotmenting with your son will be great for both of you. There are lots of jobs where an extra hand comes in useful (couldn't bring myself to say 'handy' !)

[CarolineW]

The same thing happened to me :-) (well, 2 in 2 weeks). And then I got offered another one the following month. It never rains but it pours, as they say! Hope you enjoy yours as much as we're enjoying ours. Can't imagine life without an allotment now.

[Garden_girlie21]

Ooooh - I'm just dying for an allotment! I'm being allowed to grow veggies in my elderly neighbours garden at the moment - they used to grow loads of veggies but now they just can't manage the land - they've been growing weeds for the past 2 years!

But in the nearish future the house will go up for sale and I won't be able to grow veggies there anymore. Can't dig up anymore of my own garden - we have a dog and my family want garden space too.

Ah well, I'll just have to learn to be patient (not my best feature)

;-)

Jennifer

[bobbin]

You've won the allottery! 2 as well u lucky so and so. Did you wait long? I am in Sussex and the demand seems brisk.My lottie is small really but there is one next to it thats tiny and I keep pleading with the person responsible to let me adopt it.(The people who had since Nov have never worked it and now have an additional baby.The dilemma seems to be should I get it or someone outside the parish. Trouble is its a nightmare of weeds now.........and we're talking jumbo weeds. So for now I have his permission to net the 3 strawberry plants and I will cut down the weeds enough to prevent seeding. I will keep my fingers crossed that I may just be lucky too. I bet your itching to get digging but the weather is poop today is'nt it?

[Mrs Be]

Oh, lucky you! Wonderful to have somewhere lovely to go at lunch, much better than working through!

Do you have to live in the parish/area to get an allotment or can 'outsiders' put their names down? Just curious......

[Effigy]

I bet your itching to get digging ?

NO!!!!!!!!
Digging is the one job I just hate.....but needs must and all that

Do you have to live in the parish/area to get an allotment or can 'outsiders' put their names down? Just curious......

I was a bit hesitant to admit that I actually live 25 miles away...but I thought I might as well 'come clean' and tell the Secretary that although I live a fair distance away, I actually work just around the corner. He was completely OK with it

And so far I have been amazed at the progress I have actually made in my daily half hor visits

[marialittlebzz]

just curious... how long did you have to wait?
here in london they say about THREE YEARS !!!
by this time I will be somewhere else so at the moment I haven't apply but maybe I should just do it and cross my fingers...

[Effigy]

just curious... how long did you have to wait?
here in london they say about THREE YEARS !!!
by this time I will be somewhere else so at the moment I haven't apply but maybe I should just do it and cross my fingers...

All the 'nice' allotment sites have very long waiting lists (I had been quoted 10 years by one secretary) however, I just phoned local councils and spoke with the person in charge of allotments. It took about a week.

[Garden_girlie21]

I've finally managed to contact the people in charge - and the person I want to talk to is only available in the mornings when I'm at school - will have to get my mum to phone them. But he almost made it sound like there were some plots available - we saw loads of areas of grass and such whilst we had a look around...

Fingers crossed!!!

Jennifer

[bobbin]

Ohhh I've been keeping my fingers crossed for the small allotment next to my existing one.After a couple of other people not being able to take it on after all,it has been given to me yipee.My existing allotment is not very big so I'm not being greedy honest.The problem now is the weed situation.
Sooooo excited. I still have potato's chitted so will try to get them in asap.There are a few healthy summer raspberries on it too,what a bonus.

[Garden_girlie21]

My mum called the allotment manager today and I'm officially about the 15th person on the waiting list! But they did acknowledge that there are many uncultivated (grass and brambles) areas in the allotment site I'm hoping for and they might get someone to deweed them and make them usable - it has to go through committees and such.

But that would provide so many more allotments!

I'm only a general waiting list, and the charity manages 4 sites, so hopefully an allotment in the nearish future...

Fingers crossed!

Jennifer