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| Old Lob |
I gotta plot!The call I've been waiting for has just arrived!I've been alloted an allotment!!! After not quite four months! Now for some worK 
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| agapanthus |
Well done you!!!! | ||
| morlan75 |
OMG !!!!
SO CHUFFED FOR YOU! We know you've been after one for ages now Yay!!! Congrats! 
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| Lizzie |
Oh well done Old Lob - keep us posted on your progress won't you? | ||
| Kathy |
That's brilliant Old Lob, don't forget the photos.
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| Libby |
congratulations, is it where you wanted? | ||
| Old Lob |
Yes, down by the river, good, easily tilled soil, no rabbits (just pigeons  ), very secure, and all for £18 a year!
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| lottie |
Congratulations and no rabbits - lucky you
I have spent 6 hours on mine today. http://kooringa.com/ I have given some of mine up - due to illness - so mine is only 250ft or so by 33ft - still big though. |
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| Old Lob |
Had a look today, but not official tenant yet.
Couple of pics, pretty overgrown, so lots to do! 
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| morlan75 |
Heee hee hee... and a lady neighbour...  
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| agapanthus |
Got a lovely artichoke there!! | ||
| Old Lob |
Is that the large plant in the middle? I wondered what is was! |
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| TheGirlsMum |
Your sooooo lucky old lob with the allotment. I thought I'd solved my quest last week when I was handed a flyer for a new allotment site so I email and went to look......advertised as opening in June with 75-80 plots.
The rent is £100 per annum, its actually the far side of Porthleven so quite a journey and atm it is still a field, no plots marked off, there will be no water and as the owner is a landscape gardener he is prepared to quote you a rate to rotovate the plot for you....... Some one has seen away to make themselves some very easy money. |
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| Old Lob |
Yes, I was offered one at the same price, with extras! Did have water, but it was also overrun with rabbits! If they'd said come at night with lamp and air gun I might have considered it!
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| Libby |
look forward to following your progress
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| Old Lob |
Get the gate keys on Monday morning. Metcheck's not showing rain for Monday so I can start clearing!
Had a closer look today, globe artichokes, tasty strawberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries, rhubarb and other as yet unidendified stuff! Bottle of vodka for the first family member to get stuck in as well! Real motivation!
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| lottie |
Its gorgeous and will be an absolute doddle to tidy up - what a lovely plot. | ||
| Old Lob |
Got the keys at 8:30 am, and got stuck in!
There was a storm at midday which put a damper on things, but I got a nice bit done. |
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| Kathy |
Look forward to seeing the photos.
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| TheGirlsMum |
Well done you. | ||
| Old Lob |
My fellow plotters have given me purple sprouting brocolli, courgettes, potatoes, and red onions!
The next bit! 
The fruits of someone elses labour! 
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| Kathy |
What a difference already and your fellow plotters sound like nice people!
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| Libby |
Ooooooooooo, lucky you
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| lottie |
Brilliant - its amazing how much you can get done - and allotmenteers are usually very nice people, who love to share their produce. | ||
| Old Lob |
Quietly chuffed, my first seeds have germinated after nine days!
pak choi! 
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| Kathy |
Wonderful, well done!
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| Old Lob |
This is a pic of our rate free water supply, there are seven sets of steps and handrails down to the river provided by the local council cos they negotiated a strip of land for the pathway!
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| lloyd |
Smashing!
Our lottie has free water piped in to a trough which we extract it from with watering cans, and carry it 100yds to our plot. |
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| Old Lob |
Some up to date stuff from the plot.
Everything a bit late as it only two months, but some things are edible! 
Leeks, already tried, awaiting visitors from the principality. 
The new raised bed for growing stevia. I have one growing in the other bed to see how it Winters. Might turn the raised bed into a poly tunnel! 
And finally, Sooty, the allotment’s cat! Gets a bit too well fed! 
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| TheGirlsMum |
Wow! Wow! and Wow!
Do you know that Wyevale are selling their seeds off for 50p? Ive got all next years and organic too! |
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| agapanthus |
Well done Lob....looks as though you've worked very hard!!!! 
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| lloyd |
Think I'll make a trip to Wyevale then, TGM.
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| Old Lob |
I've taken on the half plot next to mine, that's two half plots.
Bit of clearing to do, Ulster Prince tates and a greenhouse next year! 
Been busy converting a dog kennel and run into a usable shed 
About there! 
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| lloyd |
You're going to be a busy chap, matey. Want to help us with ours?...We're only up the road in Brizzle?
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| Old Lob |
Pretty much full days on the plot when the weathers half decent, even take lunch with me!
Think its the first time I can honestly say I'm enjoying a bit of hard work! 
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| Libby |
that is lovely to hear. Look forward to following your progress
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| morlan75 |
Nice one stanley!!!
Nearly as big as our kitchen
xxx |
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| Old Lob |
Camp stove (screwed to the bench) and kettle installed today, sheer luxury!
Cuppa soup anyone? 
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| morlan75 |
 YAY!!! Shed Warming Party ?
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| Libby |
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| Old Lob |
Creature comforts!
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| lloyd |
Hehe! All it needs now is a camp bed! Good on you Stan.
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| Old Lob |
Some guy tried that
He'd been thrown out of his digs, then thrown off the lotties! 
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| Libby |
a marmite man!!!!!!
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| Old Lob |
Can't live without it! Just had my soldiers for brekie; has to be the big glass jar, no watered down new fangled plastic!
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| Kathy |
It's looking good Old Lob! 
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| Old Lob |
We assembled a few bits from a couple of plots, tomorrow, with the help of mark down bangers, we lunch on the plot out of mess tins.
I should never have told them about my stove!
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| Libby |
what fun!!
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| TheGirlsMum |
Fantastic | ||
| Old Lob |
Finished clearing the potato patch on the new bit of plot, and my legs ache! Start building my blackberry barrier tomorrow, and have a walk round with a spade among the briars!
Looking for a suitably priced greenhouse now!
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| Libby |
looking good, don't forget to check 'Freecycle' I find alot of garden stuff during the winter period as not so many people are thinking 'garden' then!! | ||
| Old Lob |
I have an assistant now, he's six foot four and in charge of pest control;
meet Julien!
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| Old Lob |
Not much action today!
Still haven't discovered who gave Julian a parasol!
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