How much?

[gojiberry]

There are ways to reduce the time required to keep your plot tidy and productive. Also find out if your site does half or quarter plots. I am the chairman of our site and I am a great believer in matching the size of the plot to a persons requirement.

Ian

[Alison]

if you're wondering whether it's too much work, there's a book called , I think, the half hour allotment. Ask in the library or something... It's got a lot of good advice on how to cope with what you're growing and where to spend time for maximum return.

I had a look at that book and didn't like it much (although there are some bits of good advice). One thing that is worth remembering is that it's only advocating that you can do it in half and hour when you've got it all set up and so you'll need a heck of a lot more time in the first place either to totally tame a plot or convert it to how you want it to fit in with that ideal. If you haven't got that time then the rest of the book is irrelevant.

Secondly, the advice on what to grow and not to grow doesn't fit with what I want, whilst there is some merit in growing high value / difficult to get hold of crops, I want to be self sufficient in veggies and will always, for example, grow main crop tatties etc which it advices against.

[Norm]

Errrrm, errrr, about 5 hours a day on week days and all day at weekends. I'm retired, I've got the time! Having said that, over half the time is spent talking, drinking tea and resolving other plot holders allotment problems.

[binley100]

Sundays 4-5 hours , then try and get there about 2-3 times a week for at least an hour usually more. It depends what needs doing . It could take an hour picking beans , raspberries etc before the weeding and watering gets done.

[frogdoctor]

Weather permitting I go or like to go about 3/4 times a week, which works out on average to 4/5 hours per week, an hour of that is spent chatting to others on the site winter times vary though, some weeks I do not go at all, things are just ticking over by them-selves at that time of the year, so there is no need to go.

Such a hard life

[Lazgaot]

I try and go every other day for a couple of hours and a bit more at the weekends. 6-8hrs a week as a rough guess from Spring-Autumn and half that in Winter.