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  • How long did you wait for yours?

    Hi All,

    I have been added to the waiting list for a small site I did not realise existed fairly close to home. I've been informed it has a very long waiting list.

    So, just how patient are you lot? How long did you wait until you were allocated a plot?

    I suspect I might have a (even more) wizened look about me by the time I get one!

    While wearing your night clothes, plant cucumbers on the 1st May before the sun comes up, and they will not be attacked by bugs.

  • #2
    hiya

    i had to wait 9 months for mine i never realised how popular they are

    but once you get one its all good times ahead
    All My Spare Time Is Spent On The Plot .. Gardening Is What I Love To Do..
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    • #3
      I phoned and was told I was 11th on the list, but a month or so later I got the call - so I waited two and a half years.
      I got lucky as a few of the old boys either gave up or passed away, at around the same time, and a few of the people above me on the list were no longer interested. Result!

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      • #4
        I heard almost immediately but I got in before they were so popular.

        Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

        Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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        • #5
          I waited about 5 and a half years for the first half plot and 3 years for the second. It's only shorter for the second as we had a lot more plots than normal come free and we're bringing others back into use this year. We don't advertise our existence much and I think people choose not to go on it when they hear how long the list actually is.
          http://mudandgluts.com - growing fruit and veg in suburbia

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          • #6
            I had inside information about plots coming vacant because of neglect, and put my name on the list. I was 5th. I got an email offering me the plot I'd asked for within a week. The list is up to 4 again, so I went back on, in case the one next to me, which is uncultivated, comes free. They aren't big, so 2 next to each other would be great. The list on my old site isn't very long either, so once I give mine up I hope it will be allocated quickly so it doesn't get too unkept.
            I could not live without a garden, it is my place to unwind and recover, to marvel at the power of all growing things, even weeds!
            Now a little Shrinking Violet.

            http://potagerplot.blogspot.com/

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            • #7
              When my husband decided he wanted one about 8 years ago I went on t'internet and found a site about a mile away. Within 2 hours we had sighed up for two. They'd not been cultivated for over a decade. At the time we had no idea of the hard work we were letting ourselves in for!!!!

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              • #8
                I decided I'd like a plot one Christmas as my youngest was in full time school. I started on it Easter Sunday. Our site has 68 plots, the turnover is about 3-4 a year, although one year we had 9 change hands. I've now got a second plot and son leaves school this year! How time flies.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by greenishfing View Post
                  When my husband decided he wanted one about 8 years ago I went on t'internet and found a site about a mile away. Within 2 hours we had sighed up for two. They'd not been cultivated for over a decade. At the time we had no idea of the hard work we were letting ourselves in for!!!!
                  I waited 3 years and i have moved 3 times since,and each one was overgrown about 10 years worth.
                  the thing is to go down every few weeks and keep on at the committee .
                  Te thing is they have theire plot and as long as the money is comming in they dont all bother.

                  Pester them why should i be on waiting list when they cannot be bothered to do anything
                  and you can get results.
                  I bet you can count on one hand the people that have got a plot and it was ready to go 99.9%
                  will have been left for years .
                  good luck.
                  look in my public pictures and see what mine were like.

                  GOOD LUCK AGAIN cheers Peter

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                  • #10
                    7 long years but was very particular about the site I wanted, our town is on a hill and those towards the bottom are very chalky, got there in the end

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                    • #11
                      The council had ignored my letters so I went up to the site in March 2013 and took a plot there and then.

                      It was a bit of a mess, though.

                      My gardening blog: In Spades, last update 30th April 2018.
                      Chrysanthemum notes page here.

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                      • #12
                        ^^^You have certainly transformed that Martin!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Martin H View Post
                          The council had ignored my letters so I went up to the site in March 2013 and took a plot there and then.

                          It was a bit of a mess, though.

                          Similar to mine Martin but you can do it if you put the effort in
                          we have some like that now and they have had 3 or 4 letters but it dont get through to them.

                          Ihad to look twice i thought it was one of the 10 that are on our allotment but no.
                          cheers peter

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                          • #14
                            I waited 8 years - that's standard in Edinburgh!
                            He-Pep!

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                            • #15
                              Thanks for the replies everyone.

                              At our last house I was on a few lists for over 8 years and did not get a plot. Since moving here, I wasn't aware of any sites within a realistic distance and our lil' un was 3 then. Two years on, I find out there is a site on a route I take a few times a week and is less than 10 mins in the car, 20 on the bike. It's a committee non council managed site.

                              I've been invited to take a look and will pop down there as soon as I can.

                              ^ Martin, that looked like a lot of hard work was required!

                              While wearing your night clothes, plant cucumbers on the 1st May before the sun comes up, and they will not be attacked by bugs.

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