Do you spend 'too long' at the plot

[Mrs Bee]

Two sides of allotmenteering :





I am cultivating being around too much while the days are still short, so there is less moaning when I start to vanish for whole days.

LOL. Not really it is just Mr Bee and I garden in totally different ways.
I am a creative, crash bang wallop merchant with very green fingers.....
and he is by the book, straight lines, don't put any more plants in that part merchant.

And we sometimes clash!!! he tells me not to do stuff and I ignore him and he shouts at me and throws his hat at me. Red rag to a bull, I throw the hat back minus the crown. Only fair I think.

[Small pumpkin]

I wish I'd seen that Mrs Bee .

[ESBkevin]

We are lucky in that we both enjoy the experience and manage to make it work for our different personalities. Carol is patient and likes to potter along gently taking an hour to hoe a patch, me I'm in like Flynn and done before moving on to the next thing. Now I might chop off the odd small plant but in the next 40 mins I could dig up separate and replant something else in a freshly dug and composted bed.

So we tend to gravitate toward the things we do best, Carol will prick out seeds and loved the planting process. I would then lay out the lines, put down the planks ensure the soil has been racked or the drill cast etc. and place the trays of plants conveniently. Works well enough.
Planting potatoes I dig she pops the tuba in and we both cover in compost. I'm left to ridge up of course.

Because we both enjoy it and Carol does shifts we each get to play...I mean work on our own from time to time, as well as together when time permits.

Like I said lucky or just blessed.

[Baldy]

Kevin - congrats - possibly the most double entendre post I've 'had the pleasure' of reading for quite a while...
Viz: "we both cover in compost. I'm left to ridge up of course." ...

Horses for courses etc

(I'll get my coat) ...

[Alison]

Me and OH both have our hobbies and do many things separately. Gives us something to talk about when we're together. I could always spend more time up there as there's always things to do but the only time I get grief for not coming home is on long summer evenings when I've lost track of time and the veggies are needed for tea! I clutter up the house with plants, him with bike parts, neither of us mind, it's my house as much as his and his as much as mine so we can both use the space accordingly

[Snadger]

2 hours every evening after work (3 this evening) and one full day at the weekend, usually Sunday, but I watch the weather forecast and decide which day!
OH is happy that we never need buy eggs,tatties or onions and I do any shopping rerquired on the way to the plot. I've had an allotment plot for about 10 years and OH doesn't even know where it is and has never been there.

I enjoy my space and she enjoys hers.

[seasprout]

I'm a back garden grower so I'm in and out of the garden most of the day, well when its not raining or too icy.

Same here, although I'd love to be rich enough to retire 20 years early and just garden all day....

[Muddy_Boots]

The OH came down once to see what I was up to, got out the car and walked up and down the path muttering very nice a few times and then went back home. Not been down since but likes the veggies to turn up occasionally, reckons the lottie has too much bare soil and mud for her delicate shoes and trainers. Now she's happy enough to look at the photos I take now and then showing the progress.

Go down every spare time I have when I'm not Marathon training or running a road race, cycling on my racing bike, flying my rc helicopters or planes, family history researching, working or flat green bowling so plenty of time left to see the OH after all that.

Wonder what she will do once the man cave is finished with the front decking down on the lottie and its middle of summer.

[lottie dolly]

prepare a little area,get a take away,music a bottle if she likes,and your company,show her the other advantages of the lottie,it can work for both,