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Post by plotty on Aug 20, 2007 6:48:52 GMT 1
Hi all just to let you know that I have added my latest update of my allotments along with a slideshow of my Dhalias, next week I will have my August Video for you to enjoy, regards Steve. www.myallotments.com |
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Post by 4pygmies on Aug 20, 2007 7:09:58 GMT 1
Morning Steve, the sight of your fanastic plot with a few weeds on it has made me feel much better! You are human after all.....only joking  I have been fighting to keep even a few bits of my garden clear of weeds this year and have, in general, completely failed! Still next year will be different (as I've being saying for the last 30 years... ;D). That allotment site in Brum is sickening, isn't it? How lucky they are......the sort of site all lottie communities should aspire to. Cheers. |
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Post by emseypop on Aug 20, 2007 7:32:56 GMT 1
I nearly went to the walsall rd open day myself plotty as its just down the road! However alot of other locals sites ours included feel funding is a very streached at our sites but not really so at the famous walsall road sites. I think I'd find it a bit depressing when we had to fight to get our rubbish removed and see our crops takes and sheds ransaked and vandalised and still huge holes in fences. I'm a geen eyed monster!
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Post by sweetleaf on Aug 20, 2007 15:41:18 GMT 1
I must agree with Emsey on this one, it seems money is spent hand over fist on selected sites while others are left to become run down shambles. We spent six months without water at one end of the plots waiting for repairmen last year and we are constantly being invaded by thieves and vandals because the fences are broken. I hope you have better luck than we have had .....perhaps it is our allotment manager who is at fault also for not being forceful enough? I tried to get on the committee but was turned down because I garden organically ! Your plots look great again, Steve Im sure they will always be so .  |
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Post by plotty on Aug 21, 2007 19:44:17 GMT 1
Hi all and thanks for your comments, I'm shocked Sweetleaf that you were excluded from your committee because of gardening Organically that's disgraceful on their part. Is your site a council run site or is it run by your own association? site security is paramount and not having water is bad as well, someone needs a good boot up their behinds I think, if you need any advice then just ask, thanks Steve.
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Post by sweetleaf on Aug 21, 2007 19:58:35 GMT 1
Hi Steve, the site is council run, the committee is only three people they tend to look after their own interests, even to the point of hijacking our chippings deliveries. The site is split in half by a road and all the committee are on the other side of the road to us. The real reason my organic gardening excluded me is that committee members run the site shop, and they believed my organic principles would affect sales of slug pellets and chemical weedkillers  |
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Post by 4pygmies on Aug 22, 2007 10:56:36 GMT 1
I still think you should form a rebel committee and tackle the council on your own - that'd get the other lot going and you might get something done.....
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I have been fighting to keep even a few bits of my garden clear of weeds this year and have, in general, completely failed! Still next year will be different (as I've being saying for the last 30 years... ;D).