whoopee we have an allotment (well half of one)

[blackkitty]

I'm very excited we've been given half an allotment and its in pretty good shape
We were phoned last night by the allocation secretary of the local allotments and told they had half an allotment available. They've decided that as there are several people on the waiting list to let the plots in halves at present, it also gives them time to see how people get on. Anyway we couldn't believe our luck, a lady who had two plots decided that she couldn't work both so has given one up. There was someone in front of us on the list but they didn't turn up at the arranged time so they offered it to us. Its already worked in a series of beds. Two have bulbs in and we've quite happily agreed that they can stay till the flowers die off and the previous owner can remove them when she is able to. Of the other twelve, two are very overgrown with some wild flower weed type plant which seems to attract bees so we'll leave those so long, two have been dug over and are in big clods that we'll have to break up, two are immediately plantable and the rest vary from a few weeds to needing some serious weeding. However none of it is anything like the other half which is very overgrown
I guess I'll be spending the rest of the evening planning my planting.

[Mooresey]

Well done. Hope it all goes well for you and your new patch

[FionaH]

All the best with it

[snohare]

Ah, don't you feel the world is suddenly full of promise ? Pity the poor people who would love to have such a thing, and cannot !

[Growem]

Fourteen beds? Sounds like a pretty big "half" allotment to me. Congrats on it.

[Eyren]

Fourteen beds? Sounds like a pretty big "half" allotment to me. Congrats on it.

I have eight 1.2m x 3.3m beds on my three-pole plot (barely a third of a standard allotment) plus areas for perennials and compost bins - sounds like the previous owner went in for modest-sized permanent beds like me

Well done, blackkitty - someone else's bad timekeeping was your good luck! You didn't cross the road in front of them, did you?

[blackkitty]

I do admit to feeling a little smug about it, especially as I know that if the first chap had turned up we would be on the very overgrown half. I'm impressed with the association secretary, he was saying that they're contacting everyone with under worked plots and suggesting that they give half to someone else as that way more people get access and its less daunting for people. They are enormous plots, our half is not much smaller than my friend's whole one on another site. and all for the princely sum of £6.50 a year...

[catbud]

Sounds fab!

[Maximillian]

how exciting! we have a half plot too and now we're more established could do with the other half! sadly that def. won't be the case as in london plots are so oversubscribed that you're lucky to get half! i am slowly learning to interplant, successional sow and do all i can to use the space to its limit! have fun with your plot. try to buy some plants from the garden centre so you have something to put in there as well as some seeds. you can still get things like tomato plants, sweetcorn plants etc for the time being.

[blackkitty]

I guess that plots are becoming oversubscribed in most parts of the country and I can only see it getting worse.
I'm lucky in that I was helping my neighbours on their plot so had started lots of things in my greenhouse. I am having huge panics though that I haven't planted enough and now things are still too small to go out but I need the room for my tomatoes etc.
I'm lucky as well to have two raised beds in the garden and we had just taken up the gravel in the middle of the back garden to make more veg space when we got the lottie. So now I have bits all over. We've also started a biggish veg garden behind my classroom at school, and have planted some fruit trees so hopefully I'll have a reasonable crop when we get it all sorted.

[Nicos]

Wonderful news!!!!..bet we all know where you're going to spend the Bank Holiday weekend then....come rain or shine?????

[sweetiepea]

Sounds fab! Great to have so much work done already. Best of luck with it blackkitty.