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Our allotments about 40 plots, are owned by the local landowner, and they don't give a fig!
About half are well cultivated mostly by older men, the rest are a disgrace, with pilgrims coming and going every time the leases are up.
Most of them are young males with a wife in tow, sprouting i'm organic i'm not going to feed my family chemicals, the worst part is some of the older men try to help them but get brushed off by the usual platitudes of having listened to often to Monty Don and his team of about 10 helpers!
They potter about for a couple of weekends, usually Easter time then they give up and are never seen again.
Then the weeds,especially thistles and fire weed grow to waist high and seed which blow over the other plots.
Last year on mine apart from the chickweed which is always with me, I had loads of thistles and fire weed seedlings from seed which had blown in!
One of the older men keeps going to the estate office to complain, the answer is they have paid so they can do what they want, he keeps trying to get somewhere to no avail!