Gardening/Allotmenting

[steveindenmark]

Wow, that's not like allotments in the UK. You'd need to grow a lot to get that sort of money back! Looks more like a holiday home.
To me, an allotment has to be reasonably close to where you live, as you need to be going regularly to water, weed etc. With that in mind I don't really see the point of being able to sleep there. It's good to have a place to escape to, but sleep?
Growing your own veg is very therapeutic though.

My allotment.
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I actually do have a garden at home 😁😁

 

[steveindenmark]

I took the plunge and bought the koloniehave (Danish allotment). I stopped off at the local tip to pick up a couple of garden chairs and some tools on the way to signing the contract. Just to have something to sit on.

It came as a complete suprise to find the previous owner had left everything in the sale. I mean everything. I do not have to buy anything at all to start work.

But it is funny how you find things to do straight away. The wood floor in the tiny house is bare wood and has never been stained or sealed. So that needs doing. I also want to build an outdoor kitchen out of free and scrap products. Something very simple.

 

[PaulSB]

@steveindenmark clearly this is something we don't have in the UK. It looks like a great spot. Enjoy!

 

[steveindenmark]

@steveindenmark clearly this is something we don't have in the UK. It looks like a great spot. Enjoy!

I cannot recall anything like this in the UK. But they have them in Germany, Poland and all over Scandanavia. It costs £250 a year to rent. I can live in it from April 1st to November 1st. Maybe that is why the UK government does not want them.

 

[PaulSB]

I cannot recall anything like this in the UK. But they have them in Germany, Poland and all over Scandanavia. It costs £250 a year to rent. I can live in it from April 1st to November 1st. Maybe that is why the UK government does not want them.

Your photos suggest it's more of a garden with a couple of raised beds than an allotment. The type of garden which would come with a large house. My allotment has eight raised beds, two traditional beds, greenhouse, shed, composting area and a summer house. There is a grass area because we didn't need/couldn't cope with cultivating all the land.

A bit tricky knowing how to put this. My impression is in Europe the "middle-classes" are more likely to live in an apartment than their British counterparts. Does this make up for the lack of garden which usually comes with a typical UK three-bed semi etc?

 

[BoldonLad]

Your photos suggest it's more of a garden with a couple of raised beds than an allotment. The type of garden which would come with a large house. My allotment has eight raised beds, two traditional beds, greenhouse, shed, composting area and a summer house. There is a grass area because we didn't need/couldn't cope with cultivating all the land.

A bit tricky knowing how to put this. My impression is in Europe the "middle-classes" are more likely to live in an apartment than their British counterparts. Does this make up for the lack of garden which usually comes with a typical UK three-bed semi etc?

Interesting observation. In my time working in Ukraine and Russia, I observed that one of my work colleagues ( a senior manager) lived in a (what to me) was a very shabby concrete apartment block. One day, he invited me to visit his “dacha”. It turned out to be a “pash allotment” similar to those shown in Denmark. In the summer months the family often lived there, and, he would visit at weekends. The particular example I am think of was St Petersburg.

 

[steveindenmark]

Your photos suggest it's more of a garden with a couple of raised beds than an allotment. The type of garden which would come with a large house. My allotment has eight raised beds, two traditional beds, greenhouse, shed, composting area and a summer house. There is a grass area because we didn't need/couldn't cope with cultivating all the land.

A bit tricky knowing how to put this. My impression is in Europe the "middle-classes" are more likely to live in an apartment than their British counterparts. Does this make up for the lack of garden which usually comes with a typical UK three-bed semi etc?

Your photos suggest it's more of a garden with a couple of raised beds than an allotment. The type of garden which would come with a large house. My allotment has eight raised beds, two traditional beds, greenhouse, shed, composting area and a summer house. There is a grass area because we didn't need/couldn't cope with cultivating all the land.

A bit tricky knowing how to put this. My impression is in Europe the "middle-classes" are more likely to live in an apartment than their British counterparts. Does this make up for the lack of garden which usually comes with a typical UK three-bed semi etc?

It something different and that takes some getting your head around. Its not an allotment as you would think of one in the UK. But I could make it look like one if I wanted.

It cost £3000 to buy the tiny house and all the contents and tools, garden furniture. It costs £250 a year to rent, all in. I can live in it from 1st April to the end of October.

Its an expensive outlay. But its a cheap rent over the long term. If I chose to do that.

There is plenty enough land behind the greenhouse to grow for 2 of us. But if I wanted to I could dig the entire garden up to grow vegetables. But I won't.

Like the UK. There is a large mix of housing in Denmark. So I cannot really speculate.

 

[briantrumpet]

Remarkably nothing else has died in my French garden, despite being roasted during June & July, I've got some fruit on the prune & greengage trees, and I quickly mowed the lawn this morning while it was nice and cool. Even the cherry tree, post-fruiting, hasn't yet decided to shed leaves to cope with the heat... I'm very glad I spent a couple of weeks giving everything a good drenching using the waste water from the kitchen sink at the end of May... seems to have paid off.