Should people with a garden at home give up their allotments?

[dexterdoglancashire]

I think that people with no Children should be allocted children from familes with more than one.

NO, definately no, no, no way and no, in that order! Give me fur and four paws ANYDAY!

[fleegle]

No.
If there are not enough allotments to go around then more should be created and GYO widely encouraged.
Heres an idea - take over golf courses which use (waste ?) huge amounts of water and land.
Sorry to anyone who enjoys both gardening and golfing !

I'm with you on this one, to many golf courses being built at the expense of wildlife and nature. Better use of an open green space if you ask me!

[lottie dolly]

NO<NO<NO,my home garden is my home space,
the 2 lottie plots are not only a growing place,it's our chill out zone,it has a very different atmosphere to the home garden,and why should we be expected to give up a plot after all the hard work we put in,not so many new people really want to do the work involved,as it's only then that a good percentage realise just what work and effort is needed,in many cases it's a matter of...lets do the in thing,

[Snadger]

NO<NO<NO,my home garden is my home space,
the 2 lottie plots are not only a growing place,it's our chill out zone,it has a very different atmosphere to the home garden,and why should we be expected to give up a plot after all the hard work we put in,not so many new people really want to do the work involved,as it's only then that a good percentage realise just what work and effort is needed,in many cases it's a matter of...lets do the in thing,

I agree LD!

Allotmenteering is 'different' from using your own garden. There's the comararderee, the abundance of like minded individuals all doing there own thing.
My allotments were overun with vegetation when I got them and there was no waiting list............in fact the only way they could re-let the allotment I had previously was because it was left in good nick, not like the ones I took on that no-one wanted.
Allotments are usually set way from main roads and it is very peaceful.............not like at home!
My allotments are a bolt hole to another world and I would fight tooth and nail to keep them.

[weekendwellies]

no no no no no no no no no .......

[zazen999]

And once again.......no

[ginger ninger]

I think that people with no Children should be allocted children from familes with more than one.

No to giving up allotments....and she runs for the hills on the second part

[ginger ninger]

Or dig up all the football fields and turn them into allotments!

Ooow, what a fantastic idea Glutton4

[terrier]

I regularly read on gardening forums about neglected plots and the time it takes to wade trough the red tape at council level. It seems that if coucil officials and allotment associations got their act together, there would not be such a waiting list for allotments.
So what's wrong with having allotments in the middle of a golf course? It's just another obstacle for the players to get round, more fun than a simple sand trap!

[Don Vincenzo]

Give me fur and four paws ANYDAY!

What would you do with meat?

[bluemoon]

So having spent years clearing my 2 plots, spending money and time back in the days when you couldn't give a plot away I'm now supposed to give one of them up to someone who's jumped on the bandwagon and will probably give it up after three months when they realize the work involved? I think not.

I do currently have a fridge in my garden though, but the men who take them away are due to fetch it this afternoon. Even worse they insist you seal them shut with duct tape so it looks an even bigger mess than they usually do.

[SarzWix]

Read in my local rag that those with 2 plots or more are to be asked to give them up and retain only a max of 1.

Just an idea being mooted it seems, but they may enforce in future.

That's unlikely to happen here, seeing as our Committee Chair has 4 plots, the former Chairman has 3, the Secretary has 3 and a few of the others have 2. All fully utilised and taken on back in the day when the council was trying to build on them.

[bluemoon]

And anyway people just get a non-gardening friend or relative to take them on in their own names and so you still get double-plot holders it just doesn't show up in the paperwork. Far better that people are honest, I'd have thought. At least then the percentage of two plot tenants is known and can be planned for in future - assuming any allotments office ever does any actual planning.


PS, the fridge is still there.

[bluemoon]

The fridge has finally gone!!! Can I keep my plot now please?

[di]

and I wonder how big the gardens of the Fat Cats that initiated all of this are???...and how much of that they tend/use for veg/play or anything other than status?

We have a pretty small garden but I admit we could probably squeeze a few corners of it for veg,however it's rented & from past experience,we could get our marching orders at anytime the landlord comes into financial difficulties!
We have three plots,our site doesn't have a waiting list & several vacant plots.
We've made sure to not put anything permanent on our third plot,just in case there ever is a waiting list & we'd offer it back.
However,the other two we have absolutely no intention of giving up.Both were a mass of overgrown wasteland when we took them on,we've put a lot of work into them & we would also fight tooth & nail to keep them!
Sorry,but if you look around there's plenty of wasted land that could be used as allotments.No way should multiple plot holders be made to give up their plots!!!(although I must say that for a family of four,with several chooks,three does seem ample!)