Anyone with an allotment?

Managing to grow some stuff despite the snail armageddon. Had no idea what all my squashes were as the snails ate the fucking labels. Turns out one is a courgette and one is a pink banana squash. Kohlrabi and romanesco also doing great. I have my fourth lot of runner beans going in on Sunday and if they eat those I'm giving up.

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Been away last weekend. Popped up today to find almost all our salad stripped bare and the kohl rabi well and truly munched as well.
Snailageddon is no joke this year.

Pulled some spuds and gave everything a bit of a tidy up but unbelievable what a week of rain, sun and lack of maintenance can do.

I see what you’re saying. Good shout.

Finally got to give the immersion pump a test drive today. Absolute game changer. 15mins to water the whole plot properly instead of an hour with the can. Used less water than I expected given the level in the watering trough afterwards.

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Strange fly tipping - the deliberate placing of the bags by the path to the allotment gate .
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Bastard neighbours ?

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We have two plots on opposing sides of the site. This week we found out the plot directly behind our 1st is available, so we’re swapping.

Cue a day of removing raised beds and tubers. The plot is very overgrown but much more convenient.

I scored a free greenhouse.

Once the pictured spuds are done it'll go here.

Anyone an expert in bases? Ideal option will have a very favourable effort:cost:effective ratio, I guess it's a case of pick 2 though?

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Did our base in less than a day, patio slabs on top of a sand/cement mix on top of weed membrane. Take the time to get the ground as level as possible and your job will be easier and you'll need less sand.

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Looks ace, did you use bathroom sealant to stick the greenhouse down?

I did one plug and screw into a slab before deciding that was too much faff, used no more nails.

There's a bunch of smaller slabs holding the frame down on the inside too.

The good news: getting a decent and fairly consistent harvest from the plot. The hotbeds in particular seem very productive.

The less good news. Got an email asking me to sort out the weeds which it’s true to say have got pretty wild.

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We have a woman on our plot that turns up once a year, clears her plot then fucks off. This year she hasn't even done that and her plot is smothered in bindweed. It's going to be a mare to sort but I've told the committee I'll take it on if they can get her to fuck off. It's a double plot and I only have a half, they've said the next double that comes up is mine anyway. In other news, harvesting courgettes, chillies and a forest of callaloo.

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My opposite neighbour does the same thing. Absolutely boils my piss. I shop him at least 3-4x per year but they never kick him off. It’s well rubbish.

Thankfully the committee want to get rid of her, she's just proving difficult to budge. The fact she hasn't been at all this year is hopeful.

Doesn’t everyone have a neighbour like that? When we took ours on, the guy who had the other half of the plot would turn up in March, clear it, plant a load of stuff then not be seen again until the following March.

That is a pile of bindweed roots 😫

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committee want to get rid of her, she's just proving difficult to budge

Curios about how these work. What is the legal structure of an allotment, and what is the recourse if you get kicked out?

If we took an extreme eg and say everyone thought you smelt and wanted rid of you, could they?

She paid this year and signed the contract. I think they can ask her to leave as she's in breach of contract but she's a tennant from the previous committee who were absent and let anyone do what they want so she's difficult. I think they'll probably wait until contract renewal at the start of next year now.

Recycled an old, grey, ill fitting bra because pink banana squash need support too

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No water now for 10 days !
Initially we thought it was a plumbing issue but it turns out Greenwich Council haven't paid the water bill so Thames Water have turned it off.
Folks scraping the bottom of anything that had held rain water and bringing what water they can to the plot. No rain forecast this week.
There is going to be scenes/riots ! *

*there won't

Glorious day today, hadn’t had time to do any work there for 2 weekends so was a lot of clearing to do. Didn’t weed everything but made a dent. Harvested a couple of spud plants, some early Roma toms, a few chillis and loads of blueberries.
Chilli plants are all going crazy, have left the cover off the tunnel for 2 weeks, they seem happy.

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Also got given a big waterbutt so can hook up some drip irrigation(2boxes of hose and fittings were in our allotted store cupboard when we moved in).
Giant corn is our neighbours, it’s epic.

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