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Looks like a mixture 4 different fruits and vegetables
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Yep, it does look pretty cheap, we’ll see. I’ve got some rolls of crepe bandage to wrap round all the metalwork to reduce rubbing and I’ll dig it in as well. It was £50, not £500 so it’s a cheap buy to see if I can get away with it. If it works well in that position and the curtain twitchers don’t get uppity I’ll replace it with a real tunnel in a year or two.
It’s going to be tucked into the corner of our plot- large building on one side, compost bays behind and berry trellises in front. It’ll be as sheltered as it’s possible to be. Will dig the sides in and guy it to the berry frames. Should be ok. Prevailing wind is blocked by the building. Going where the blue pipe hoops are in this pic.
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Yeah, at the end of the day it’s just a cheap experiment to see if I can get away with more tunnels.
Our allotment officer is a bit officious and random. Some people get away with murder, others she brings the hammer down over nothing.It’s annoying really- as far as I’m concerned if you’re using it and it’s well maintained you should be allowed anything within reason.
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Our allotment officer is a bit officious and random. Some people get away with murder, others she brings the hammer down over nothing.
It’s annoying really- as far as I’m concerned if you’re using it and it’s well maintained you should be allowed anything within reason.
I've just been 'elected' on to our allotment committee (after resisting for 19 years 🙄) and when the latest council plot inspection was leaked we coincidently happened to be on our plots at 10am on the Sunday morning it happened. The allotment official appears to know more about what the site looks like on a spreadsheet than irl. There is a lot of generational legacy stuff going on where certain people are really getting away with things others are not - e.g. there is a chap* building a concrete/breeze block studio on his plot with he claims , "permission from the council".
*this is the chap who appeared in a tabloid headline "I was abducted by Aliens" and our secretary still has the newspaper stuck on the inside of his shed door.
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Yes, we have a lot of legacy plots where generations of family have made themselves comfy. One gent who recently passed away had a 6ft fence with locked gate to his plot(all fences verboten on our site), tapped the water supply for an irrigation system, built 3 sheds and annexed as much as 3-4 plots by all accounts. Now he’s died you’d expect the council to step in and rectify but nah, his brother has been allowed to jump the 2yr wait and get it all no questions asked.
Whenever the officer comes out for a moan about people’s boundaries she’s working off a map dated 1947. Safe to say that paths/boundaries have moved naturally over that time… -
ha ha - sounds so familiar .
On one hand there is a massive waiting list for an allotment and on the other hand a number of neglected plots and the council never seem to be able to join the two up.
Neglected plot holders (regular offenders) get the 'letter' ✔️ - but there is rarely any follow up and they know it. -
Sorry achocha.
My OH told me off for using that name when my youngest was little and we did our first veg patch.
It was a GQT reco for a veg an allotment frienemy wouldn't have heard of before. They're fun but won't change your life. Very easy though and are vine based, so just put them next to something climbable.
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I tried growing achocha this year and the slugs fucking loved them
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Pretty much. On our site as long as you wave a strimmer around once a year the day before inspection you’ll never get kicked off but folks who maintain plots with military precision will get shitty emails about being 2” past a boundary.
We waited 2yrs on the list to be given a plot that had been completely vacant for 10yrs.
I know the allotment officer has a lot of sites to keep track of in our borough but it’s all a bit shonky.
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Where in Greenwich are you.
We've had a plat for about 5 years at Park Farm near Bostal woods.
From what I've seen Greenwich seem to run things fairly well. Regular inspection but not too strict, decent through put of plot holders where plots are not upkept. They seem to trust the guys that run the plot to keep things moving too.
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That thing has guy ropes - wouldn't last long on an allotment site - might be ok as a back garden play tent.
I'd like to see a real picture of it.