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Originally Posted by jeannine ...Or to have huge plots like they do on the continent where you can stay all weekend and sleep and cook in your shed! I love the idea of families spending their free time gardening and cooking and enjoying food together. |
That'd be great

My kids are always asking me if we can camp out in the shed!
I'd really like a shop of some sort on site too, apparently they used to run one in the 'committee shed' but they had problems with theft (not sure if that means the goods or the proceeds?!) and stopped running it! So there's nowhere that people regularly bump into each other and consequently people don't talk to each other much. Also means driving somewhere to buy things like compost instead of just wheeling a barrow up the path.
Access to water would be a nice thing too, even if it meant filling cans. I had a leak in my water butt last year & had to 'borrow' water from the allotment sec's IRC tank. There are a few stand-pipes dotted around, but apparently you have to buy your own pumping gear & huge hose-pipe to fill your butts up

I'd also really like to find a source of good quality, cheap, well-rotted organic matter. Some councils will sell you compost made from their garden waste collection cheaply, and in big loads. Not ours, they need it apparently, to prettify up the mess made by Tilcon quarries filled with trash

In fantasy land, I'd also like Terry Walton, Monty Don, Alan Titchmarsh & the spirit of John Seymour to all turn up & sort my plot out & leave me with a handy plan of what to do in the next 10 years
