Category: Allotment
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The last couple of weeks at the allotment have involved construction. The post before this one details the building of a shed. Today we built a fence. The fence that was in place was in a sorry state. At some point in the past, a previous allotmenteer had planted Ivy to grow along it, it’s…
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An early delivery of our new shed gave us the opportunity to get the whole construction done in a day. The base had already been built, and put in place by last weekend, all that was needed was to make sure it was still straight, and level. While we waited for the shed to arrive…
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When we took on the allotment the area in the above photograph was under masses of weed some almost as tall as I am. We strimmed the whole plot, which took a couple of days, but meant we could finally see what we were looking at. I decided that this top corner would make a…
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Yes, you read that right, “allotments.” My husband has decided that our plot isn’t big enough. It is ready to start growing when the ground starts to warm up, but he wants a shed, and a greenhouse, which aren’t permitted on our original plot. The new plot is a bit smaller than our other allotment,…
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When we moved home a few years ago, we applied at the local authority for an allotment. We already had been growing on a plot near our old house, but it was a long way to go. We kept it on as a stop gap. 4 years passed. Having had no information from the local…
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