Gardening/Allotmenting

[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.

 

[Red17]

Really fruitfully day at the allotment. Loads of raspberrys, blackberry's, early pears and my favourite greengages to process and freeze this evening
First tomatoes should be ripe in a couple of days, and really good crops of new potatoes and courgettes.
Climbing beans and squash are a bit behind due to the drought here in the SE, but hopefully be a bit of rain in the next few days.

 

[biggs682]

First multiple pick of our tomatoes

 

[Red17]

First picking of this year's chillies, looking like a good crop this year

 

[Drago]

My tomatoes finally coming good after a slow start.

 

[Red17]

Today's allotment delivery. Quite a lot of shovelling to do

 

[CXRAndy]

Drop off this to prepare for this

Next stage upper lawn

 

[biggs682]

Need to work out what to do withloads of eating and cooking apples for next year as the 3 apple trees at my mums are producing way more apples than we can eat and make crumbles with .

Tried leaving some outside for others to help themselves but no takers as no foot traffic

 

[Drago]

My tomatoes are coming on good now.

 

[PeteXXX]

Info, please..

My Zebra Grass is definitely doing well (extension lead for scale as it was the nearest thing to hand.. . Sunflowers are approximately 2½/3' tall)
What's the best time to split it, possibly into three plants? 🤔

TIA