get an allotment

doesn’t sound great, but apparently 60 new allotments are being created at the site closest to my house, and I will be getting one of these in a couple of months, hurrah!

someone at the allotments has a plant he said was an African cabbage. It grows on big plants, he called it ‘perpetual cabbage’ also an African name which I’ve forgotten. want to know what it’s called.

a fox was wandering about my plot in a cocky fashion. nosed in the shed, stared right at me with funny fat cheeks and eyes too close together.

Have got key, and made a very soggy visit to the plot today. Stood there and looked at it a bit, ordered some seed potatoes, and went home again.

Have added a new goal to grow vegetables, so I’m done with this goal now.

Unless there should be an intermediate stage of “make allotment ready to plant”!!!

this will have to go…

After waiting what seems like aaaages.

Here’s a picture of the plot.

Went to see the other two sites that came up today, and one of them is lovely! It’s a half-plot, not too weedy, lots of sunshine :-)

The soil looks a bit poor, but nothing a few barrow loads of manure won’t sort out…

Ok, so the overgrown one might not come off, but apparently there are two others that are becoming vacant, and I’m off to have a look at them tomorrow, so fingers crossed!

the letter from the council admitted it was very overgrown, so I’m going to have a look at it first before I decide whether to accept it. I might get it rent free because it’s so bad… Still, one of the reasons I wanted it was so I could get some exercise, and digging up weeds will do that for me.

If it’s covered in brambles, then I might think twice.

Or, the alternative would be to ask to stay on the list, but take this one in the meantime – that way I’d get the chance of a more feasible project, and the plot would improve whilst I had it. I’ll let you know.

It’s not the kind of thing that’s ever occured to me before, but since discovering that i live pretty much around the corner from an allotment) site, the idea of having a bit of land where i could grow stuff and get dirty and be a bit green is growing on me.

Is that old sounding??

Whatever. Gardening is supposed to make people happier, and i want some of that.

http://www.elderstubbs.org.uk/index.html
For people outside of the uk, and allotment is basically a plot of land you rent that you can grow stuff on.

Now there’s only four people ahead of me on the list :-)