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    I took over my allotment April last year with a friend. We dug it over, very heavy work as it's oxford clay. She has now decided to back out so the plot is now mine all mine.

    I've tried posting this a cuppla times tonight, but with piccies and I haven't got the hang of that. My degree is in IT so I'm missing something. I will persevere, in the meantime you get a post sans piccies.

    The lottie is 85' X 25', facing SSW down a slope. The top has a shed with a decrepid and unusable and unreparable "greenhouse" behind. The shed is actually brilliant, but is in the wrong place. Having had a critical look at it today, it's got to go. So the top 27' of the lottie is designated "Soweto" and has to go.

    I'm now going to list the inventory, some things are not included as I can't reach them or don't want to try. There's plastic over some stuff that disintegrates on touch so I want something to put it in before I investigate further.

    Inventory:

    8x8 Greenhouse (dismantled)
    Lotsa pots, propagators, seed trays.
    Seeds
    Grubber
    Rake
    Hay fork
    Spades
    Hoe
    Pitchfork
    Rubbish bin
    Incinerator
    3 waterbutts (there were 5 but 2 have been nicked)
    Heavy duty sprayer
    Long-handled fork
    Buckets
    Parafin heater/cooker (with chimney)
    Various plant foods
    WD40
    ***** fluid
    Hand shovel
    Watering can roses (watering can defunct)
    Roll of carpet underfelt
    2 x rolls semi permeable membrane
    Safety mask
    Whetstone
    Swoe (very rusty)
    Plant labels
    Cuprinol
    BBQ lighter
    Dibbers
    String
    Machete (rusty)
    Tool belt (good condition) I nearly bought one of these before Xmas!!
    Bamboo canes
    3 x very old saucepans
    Large tarpaulin
    15 x rockets (no not lettuce or spuds) actual FIREWORKS.
    Can of Brut deoderant
    Staple gun
    Large quantity of timber
    Rope
    Polytunnel cover (I suspect the frame is around but I haven't found it yet).
    Several sheets of glass
    Double glazed panels
    Door.

    Oh and!

    Some ar*ehole has nicked my rhubarb and strawberries! The one job I had in mind was to force the rhubarb. No longer relevant. A big hole in the ground.

    I met another recent tenant allotmenteer whose had ALL his crops planted since June nicked.
    "I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)
    "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live" (also Alexandre Dumas)
    Oxfordshire

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    Wow, you got quite a lot with your lottie there, though some I suspect you'd rather you didn't have!

    On mine I had a matress, moriss minor bumper, bent bike frame, 3 leccie lawn mowers and one of those subbuttio [sp] type tables

    Originally posted by JanieB View Post
    My degree is in IT so I'm missing something.
    Yup, that's my degree too, but I often get asked the bits they didn't teach me, and people must disbelieve that I did it at all
    Shortie

    "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

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    • #3
      Mine's in Geology. I just hit everything with a rock!
      Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

      www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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      • #4
        Mine's in politics...I'd better not say a word!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by mapcr77 View Post
          Mine's in politics...I'd better not say a word!
          You'll be the first politician that didn't!
          Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

          www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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          • #6
            Not a bad haul Janie, most of it sounds useful at least! The only thing on mine was loads of half buried black plastic, broken glass & plenty o weeds!

            Can't believe people are digging up & stealing plants...??!! How despicable is that??

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            • #7
              A can of Brut deodorant!?! Blimey, that shed hasn't been used in a while!

              Does look like a bit of a treasure trove there! Does make you wonder why people think it's ok to go and nick anything they haven't worked for/earned, but plants!?! Madness.
              A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

              BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

              Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.


              What would Vedder do?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Flummery View Post
                Mine's in Geology. I just hit everything with a rock!
                OMG Flum... I was going to do Geology and for what I now know to be a totally stooooopid reason, I didn't and ended up doing IT. I've regretted not following my heart with Geology ever since
                Shortie

                "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

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                • #9
                  It's a fantastic 'general science' degree. You do bits of biology, geochemistry, geophysics, even lunar! Loved it.
                  Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                  www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                  • #10
                    JanieB, That list makes it sound like a serial killer had the plot before you.
                    Blogging at..... www.thecynicalgardener.wordpress.com

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                    • #11
                      Wonderful list JanieB! I take it that as your erst while partner has gone you have had to change plot? Can't help with rhubarb, don't grow it as I'm the only one who will eat it and I can beg a load off my Dad during the season.
                      The weeks and the years are fine. It's the days I can't cope with!

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