dealing with tenants with over grown plots

[marathon]

I had a similar query when I was allotment Secretary and ran through the wording of the letter on the vine.
Can't remember the thread title but do remember I got some very useful amendments and grammatical errors ironed out!

I'll try doing a serach when DD goes to preschool.

I've now got an upto date contact list. Taken over the waiting list and asked the council to forward people to me rather than the chairman. T&C's and warning letter. I'm just going to use the notice to quite letter that the council uses. Done an agenda for the AGM but as no minutes have been kept not sure how the meetings are set out. Given everyplot a number plaque as it's in the T &C's that each plot is numbered clearly.

well finally it feels like everything is in place.

[marathon]

Big thankyou to snadger who has kindly helped me out

You are a star!

[petal]

oh, i do feel sorry for people who take a plot on, well meaning like, then something happens (like temporary ill health)and it all goes to pot. like my plot.........it is so weedy, i am so embaressed by it this year, it resembles al the other plots around us........!

[marathon]

oh, i do feel sorry for people who take a plot on, well meaning like, then something happens (like temporary ill health)and it all goes to pot. like my plot.........it is so weedy, i am so embaressed by it this year, it resembles al the other plots around us........!

Have you told the other plot holders you've been ill as they may help.

[organic]

Snadger - it is a very absorbable book. I've got the concise guide at the moment (one of the best Christmas presents I've ever had - I've been using it constantly since I got it... mostly when I hear someone complain about some pest or other in their garden or know someone starting to grow at home (usually toms in one of those soft plastic greenhouses).

I saw the "complete" one this week though when I went to a bookshop... I think I need that too. It looks brilliant.

[seasprout]

oh, i do feel sorry for people who take a plot on, well meaning like, then something happens (like temporary ill health)and it all goes to pot. like my plot.........it is so weedy, i am so embarrassed by it this year, it resembles all the other plots around us........!

My work colleague has given up her plot after 4 months, she blamed everything, such as grounds too hard, too expensive, too far away, too dry, too overgrown, too wet, too many (insert pest here), the one thing she didn't do was accept she was deluded from the start.

Now her new �400 blue shed and trellis set just sits there surrounded by weeds.

[seasprout]

Rant.

Am I bitter.. well yes, I tried to instill into her the work needed, she said she understood, she then got several packets of seeds and asked me to grow them on for her in my glasshouse as a favour, i did, as she was starting out, my compost, pots, time used etc....

Nothing was looked after by her after I passed them on, no watering etc....

The sweetcorn I got going for her apparently never even made it to the Allotment, she put them into pots on her patio, then forgot to keep them watered.

And her profession is a Gardener. You can imagine what her work is like then.

Sorry to hijack and rant.
I will now go and turn a compost heap over and take it out on that.!!

[Snadger]

Am I bitter.. well yes, I tried to instill into her the work needed, she said she understood, she then got several packets of seeds and asked me to grow them on for her in my glasshouse as a favour, i did, as she was starting out, my compost, pots, time used etc....

Nothing was looked after by her after I passed them on, no watering etc....

The sweetcorn I got going for her apparently never even made it to the Allotment, she put them into pots on her patio, then forgot to keep them watered.

And her profession is a Gardener. You can imagine what her work is like then.

Sorry to hijack and rant.
I will now go and turn a compost heap over and take it out on that.!!

Strange you should mention she's a gardener by profession............ I have a friend who is a gardener by prof and he had the chance of an allotment plot close to me...."Oh no says he, what sort of leisure activity would that be to me? Bit like a busmans holiday"........he had a point!

Having said that, gardening CAN be a bit of a vocation/vacation rather than a job. We have a council gardener as one of our plotholders who wins all the amateur shows and is a show judge!

PS Equally sorry for prolonging the hijack!

[organic]

We have a council gardener as one of our plotholders who wins all the amateur shows and is a show judge!

Smells fishy! Haha.

I've had a skinful tonight so I'm not going to so much as attempt to type something witty here, but could we have stumbled across the reason he wins so much?


I can see why it'd be a bit of a busman's holiday. I used to work at Old Trafford, saw every one of Manchester United's home games while getting paid for it and loved every one, but eventually it became "too much like work" and I've showed little interest ever since.

EDIT
Just to add...
Completely shameless about the hijack as the thread seems to have run its course and, well, that's forums for you. (Or fora if you prefer.)

[Two_Sheds]

I had a similar query when I was allotment Secretary and ran through the wording of the letter on the vine.
Can't remember the thread title but do remember I got some very useful amendments and grammatical errors ironed out!

this one? http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ask_24204.html

(I found it with Advanced Search, using "letter" as the key word, and searched only Snadger's posts in the User Name box)