Allotments.

[Frontal]

Talk to me about allotments. Trying to find out where online you apply for them leads to many dead links and dead websites.

 

[Gramaisc]

Talk to me about allotments. Trying to find out where online you apply for them leads to many dead links and dead websites.

I know someone who finally got a response about Coton Fields, I think it involved phone-calls, online seems to be 'still in the future'.

The best way is probably to approach an actual person on-site - and get a direct contact by some means.

 

[Lucy]

If you can get to Cotonfields, then here: http://www.cotonfieldsallotments.co.uk/

 

[Mikinton]

Talk to me about sheds!

What type of storage/shed have you got?

Pretty much this, but it is for a garden rather than an allotment. As well as storage, it serves as a bolt-hole in the summer and somewhere I can watch the birds.

ETA Here it is. I've just found the photo on Facebook. 2012. No wonder I couldn't find it on my HD. Doesn't time fly.

 

[Gramaisc]

Pretty much this, but it is for a garden rather than an allotment. As well as storage, it serves as a bolt-hole in the summer and somewhere I can watch the birds.

A lot of allotments now have a No-Glass policy, although other transparent sheet materials are available, of course.

 

[Lucy]

That would be good as a potting shed too, to keep your seeds warm...

 

[kyoto49]

Talk to me about allotments. Trying to find out where online you apply for them leads to many dead links and dead websites.

Visiting the site on a Sunday morning is probably the best way!

 

[arthur]

Visiting the site on a Sunday morning is probably the best way!

I agree about visiting the site you fancy having a plot on - its the best way. It's how I got my plot - I got talking to some plot holders when I was out taking my mother for a spin in her wheelchair, They invited us in to look round - hard going pushing a wheelchair on an allotment site. I thought about it for a few weeks and then made the commitment to have a plot. My mother used to come and supervise in her wheelchair and I have a garden of remembrance on the plot with flowers she supervised me planting. I still think of it as mums allotment - happy memories when I'm digging.

 

[1JKz]

Lick of paint?

 

[1JKz]

Some great pics, advice and know hows here;

https://lovelygreens.com/
https://sharpenyourspades.com/

 

[1JKz]

Talk to me about allotments. Trying to find out where online you apply for them leads to many dead links and dead websites.

Have you got one now?

 

[Frontal]

Not yet, it was more research into costs etc, as the mrs is interested in growing food.

 

[Tilly]

Plant ya spuds on a full moon closest to Good Friday

 

[proactive]

Plant ya spuds on a full moon closest to Good Friday

Thank you Percy.

 

[basil]

Plant spuds in a tub on august bank holiday, dig em up Christmas day morning.....

 

[DeltaHotel]

Cotton Fields is Run by the Burgesses, so I very much do but it would be sold for development. They even have a website www.cotonfieldsallotments.co.uk

It's amazing what you find out during a trip to the hairdressers...

It’s Coton, not Cotton

 

[arthur]

Still got mine - my body aches more now, but its still enjoyable. nothing quite so satisfying than spending the aftn harvesting strawberry's. Then sitting with a cuppa and eating them when you told your self you were going to take them home and wash then before you ate them.

 

[basil]

Johnny Cash sang about In Them Old Coton Fields Back Home......