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Hi all,
I'm new to the forum, tho not new to growing veg (but have had a gap of quite a time since I last got my hands dirty in my parents veg patch many moons ago! lol), am married to a great guy (dobby on this forum) and have recently found ourselves rebitten with the bug for growing our own veg.
We moved into our current home 4 years ago now, and have spent most of our free time working on getting it up to spec (it was a repossesion that we got cheap but needed much work to sort out), last year finally moving onto tackling the front garden (which now looks lovely).
When we moved here dobby reitterated the fact that he would like to grow his own veg (he'd dabbled at his last house, but only very little and without too much success
), and we are now finally at a point where he can fulfill his ambitions and get growing!
We've a relatively large front garden, but it isnt really suitable to grow veg in (and I like my flowers, ferns, herbs and fruit trees!), so dobby is banned from digging it up, but our back garden is only small (approx 20' by 20'), was originally paved over when we brought the house and is used (often) for barbecueing with our friends!
Now we have agreed to lift a row or two of pavers around the edge of the back garden (on two sides) to make some beds for veg, plus lift the pavers along the side of the fence on the path that runs from the front to back garden, plus make ourselves some (probably 4 or 5) wooden trough type planters (approx 18" by 18" by 36", from the excess wood dobby's dad salvaged from pallets that was originally to make new garden fencing), but my enthusiastic hubby (dobby) now has enough seeds to plant this limited space probably 40 times over!
Locally the council have 2 plots of allotments, one at the bottom of our road with limited facilities ( http://www.pccp.info/part44/index.ph...pages&menuid=7) and another about 1/2 mile away (http://www.pccp.info/part44/index.ph...pages&menuid=8) with more plots and facilities, both of which currently have vacant plots! I've made provisional contact with the councils liason, (who has urged us to take on a plot as soon as possible, so as to be able to prepare the soil ready for next spring's planting and also to ensure we get a plot), but just wondered what the usual form is to get an allotment. The full size allotments are 250 square meters, tho you can rent a half plot if prefferred, but I am just wondering, do we need a full size plot, what sort of 'vetting' or application process would we be expected to go through, what sort of questions we should be asking, what negatives to look out for on any potential plot and if we were successful is there any general advice that folks would offer us as novices upon where to start!
Sorry this is such a long winded post, and filled with so many questions, but I would appreciate any help, comments or advice that anyone is able to offer us!
Many thanks in advance!
I'm new to the forum, tho not new to growing veg (but have had a gap of quite a time since I last got my hands dirty in my parents veg patch many moons ago! lol), am married to a great guy (dobby on this forum) and have recently found ourselves rebitten with the bug for growing our own veg.
We moved into our current home 4 years ago now, and have spent most of our free time working on getting it up to spec (it was a repossesion that we got cheap but needed much work to sort out), last year finally moving onto tackling the front garden (which now looks lovely).
When we moved here dobby reitterated the fact that he would like to grow his own veg (he'd dabbled at his last house, but only very little and without too much success
), and we are now finally at a point where he can fulfill his ambitions and get growing! We've a relatively large front garden, but it isnt really suitable to grow veg in (and I like my flowers, ferns, herbs and fruit trees!), so dobby is banned from digging it up, but our back garden is only small (approx 20' by 20'), was originally paved over when we brought the house and is used (often) for barbecueing with our friends!
Now we have agreed to lift a row or two of pavers around the edge of the back garden (on two sides) to make some beds for veg, plus lift the pavers along the side of the fence on the path that runs from the front to back garden, plus make ourselves some (probably 4 or 5) wooden trough type planters (approx 18" by 18" by 36", from the excess wood dobby's dad salvaged from pallets that was originally to make new garden fencing), but my enthusiastic hubby (dobby) now has enough seeds to plant this limited space probably 40 times over!
Locally the council have 2 plots of allotments, one at the bottom of our road with limited facilities ( http://www.pccp.info/part44/index.ph...pages&menuid=7) and another about 1/2 mile away (http://www.pccp.info/part44/index.ph...pages&menuid=8) with more plots and facilities, both of which currently have vacant plots! I've made provisional contact with the councils liason, (who has urged us to take on a plot as soon as possible, so as to be able to prepare the soil ready for next spring's planting and also to ensure we get a plot), but just wondered what the usual form is to get an allotment. The full size allotments are 250 square meters, tho you can rent a half plot if prefferred, but I am just wondering, do we need a full size plot, what sort of 'vetting' or application process would we be expected to go through, what sort of questions we should be asking, what negatives to look out for on any potential plot and if we were successful is there any general advice that folks would offer us as novices upon where to start!
Sorry this is such a long winded post, and filled with so many questions, but I would appreciate any help, comments or advice that anyone is able to offer us!
Many thanks in advance!
dexterdog
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