Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables: Waiting for Allotments, Home Grown Foods are more popular.

Monday, 31 December 2012

Waiting for Allotments, Home Grown Foods are more popular.

According to a newspaper report the amount of food eaten that was home grown or on allotments has increased. That is the good news, unfortunately the number of people waiting for an allotment is incredibly long.

In inner London some people on waiting lists for allotments are facing a 40 year wait, maybe you put your name down for your grandchildren to get one ?

They also estimate that there might be up to 150,000 with their names on a waiting list for an allotment. The figures are for 2011.

I have to thank my wonderful husband for all the time and effort he put into helping me get the allotment 'in order'. As on my own it had been impossible to lay paths and clear some of the deep rooted brambles that we had on the plot.

Eventually with his help, we got to the stage where it had paths and looked like a real allotment. Together we created a place that was a timeless place, an escape from the modern world.

Thank you, for all your time and hard work and also for sharing my enthusiasm for digging up the first new potatoes of the year.

Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

Growing Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

Monday, 31 December 2012

Waiting for Allotments, Home Grown Foods are more popular.

a healthy potato plant in flower

home grown carrots.. grown from seed

Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful