Grow Your Own Magazine

Being an inexperienced allotmenteer, I left the plot yesterday afternoon with no small amount of trepidation, despite the glorious weather; the constant news stories about 'The worst storm in 10 years' etc etc was giving me visions of returning to find both my shed and greenhouse scattered about the site in compact if untidy pieces.

Well, it wasn't quite that bad, I got up there early this morning during a lull in the weather to find a couple of panes of glass knocked out of the greenhouse,...

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Well, Gosport's Camden Allotments' Plot 53 is finally showing some signs of progress. Unfortunately a couple of weeks ago I had the first attempted break-in on the shed As there's quite a chunky lock on the door, the thugs had decided to prise the walls apart, which resulted in a couple of snapped boards. The ridiculous thing is that there isn't anything of value in there at all - unless you count 2 kilos of Onion sets! Once they'd seen this the thieves/vandals apparently vented their wrath...

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Well, I got the plot at the beginning of July, and to say it was a bit of a mess would be an understatement. Apparently untended for 10 years, the previous tennant was a lay-preacher who had some unusual methods of cultivating the land.

A full plot of 10 rods, it was completely overgrown. The first 7 yards or so were dominated by brambles, as was the entirety of one 35 yard side. The farthest 4 yards was simply a forest of nettles and inbetween the extremes: a grassland.
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